Biography
“Discovering facts in the disciplines of science, physics and mathematics not only gives me pleasure, but also stimulates ideas that seem to have a natural affinity with the language and principles of Constructivist and Systems art.
Within the parameters of these disciplines, the number and disposition of colours, the scale, and the materials used, offer an immense variety of possibilities.
In all cases, the work starts from basic proportions; through working drawings I find visual ideas that I want to use, developing them in whatever scale or medium serves best, hence the unusual diversity of my work.
As an example, the principle: "The whole diversity of the universe is reducible to
the same building blocks of matter" was the underlying idea behind my body of work
that derived from the 'Dudeney Dissection', the breaking down of a square into four
elements which can then be re-
It was my interest in colour and the quality of light that led to my spending so much of my life abroad.”
- 1931: Born in London. Worked in London and Portugal.
- 1948 -
1954: Studied at St Martins, Camberwell and Slade Schools of Art. - Taught at St Albans and Camberwell Schools of Art, Bath Academy of Art, Corsham, Byam Shaw and Chelsea Schools of Art.
- 1966 Moved to Morocco, taught at the American School of Tangier.
- 1973 -
2023: UK and Portugal. - Natalie died in January 2024. Her memorial service was held at St. Paul’s, Knightsbridge. An obituary in the Guardian can be found here.
Publications
Line of Enquiry published by EMH Arts, 2012; preface by Mel Gooding and text by Alan Fowler.
Natalie Dower: The Music of Systems Andrew Lambirth, Jonathan Clark (London) Jonathan Clark, 2007
Interview
With Patrick Morrissey, July 2014
Wikipedia page: here