Natalie d'Arbeloff


Natalie d'Arbeloff born 1929 in Paris of a French mother and Russian father
is a British American artist, known for her work as painter, printmaker, book artist, cartoonist, and writer.

Biography

She lived in France, Paraguay, Brazil, Italy and the United States. From 1948 to 1949 d'Arbeloff studied at the Art Students League of New York, followed by art study in Mexico at Instituto Allende from 1956 to 1957 and Central School of Art in London from 1964 to 1966. She resides in London since 1963.
Painter by profession, d'Arbeloff is also a printmaker, cartoonist and maker of artist's books. Her paintings, constructions, comics and artist's books have been exhibited internationally, and are in private and public collections including the Museum Meermanno, The Hague, the National Art Library at the Victoria and Albert Museum, Library of Congress, the British Library and many other rare book collections in universities and public institutions. A retrospective exhibition of d'Arbeloff's book-art and graphic work was held in 1992 in The Hague at the Museum Meermanno. Her limited edition were mainly produced by her own NdA Press from 1973 onwards but several more were printed and published in collaboration with the . NdA Press also produced various small press publications including a series of mini-comic books Small Packages from 1984-1988 featuring d'Arbeloff's fictional alter-ego character Augustine. Developed through internet forms - the webcomic and blogosphere—in 2007 d'Arbeloff published one of her series of web-based strip cartoons The God Interviews as a full color paperback comic book.

Teaching

From the 1960s to the 1990s d'Arbeloff taught printmaking, drawing, painting and mixed-media at various adult education institutions in London, including Camden Arts Centre, City Lit and Stanhope Institutes. She was visiting artist/professor at Colorado College in Colorado Springs in 1997 and 1994. She has given workshops and written articles on creativity for various publications and her three art and design teaching books were published in the UK, Sweden and the Netherlands.

Awards

When living in Paraguay d'Arbeloff was the winner of a government competition to design and execute a mural for a new modern building, the Hotel Guarani. Her abstract mural was inaugurated in 1962. She was joint recipient of The Guardian's 2007 inaugural Mary Stott competition prize which included editing the newspaper's women's pages for one week in June 2008.
d'Arbeloff won the 2019 Laydeez Do Comics Rosalind D. Penfold award. This award was for a graphic novel-in-progress and was given to Double Entendre as the best entry from comics artists over 50 years old.

Publications

This is a partial list of some of d'Arbeloff's limited edition artist's books