With nature as her inspiration, Natalie Tyler’s sculptures highlight the importance of our natural living world. Her work explores the fragile and forceful elements within the environment. She transforms her wax sculptures into bronze or crystal glass. Using cast glass she incorporates texture, color and light into the artworks. Her most recent work is about Climate Change, rising sea levels, devastating wildfires, and melting glaciers. As our habitats are threatened, an awareness of the vulnerability of nature has become crucial to the survival of many animals and creatures. Natalie Tyler, originally from Encinitas California is an internationally exhibiting artist, whose work has shown in galleries and museums across the United States and Europe. Her public art sculpture WildFire, debut in the SculptureNow exhibition at The Mount, Edith Warton's estate this past summer in Lenox, Massachusetts. She has twice been a US Embassy sponsored artist, once in Dublin, Ireland and again in Tallinn, Estonia exhibiting at the Estonia Museum of Applied Art and Design. She has received grants and awards from art institutions including Mass MOCA, Art Students League of New York, Vermont Studio Center, and Cornell University. She received her Masters of Fine Art from the California College of the Arts in San Francisco and studied in Bologna, Italy. She lives and works in the Berkshire Mountains and is inspired by its’ natural beauty, vibrant arts and culture. She has a sculpture studio in Great Barrington, Massachusetts.
