Diane Farris Gallery is pleased to present the beautiful oil paintings of Israeli-born artist Natty Saidi in her second solo exhibition with Diane Farris Gallery.

Saidi's immaculate still life paintings are reminiscent of work by late-Renaissance Italian artists, especially Caravaggio (1571-1610) and Giovanna Garzoni (1600-1670), one of the first women still-life artists. In Unfolding Entity, Saidi's exquisite organic subject matter is partially drawn and partially painted in a style that reveals phases of the artistic process. It allows the imagery to emerge step-by-step in a quietly dramatic interplay of line and form. A gentle sense of memento mori, the awareness of death in life around us, is evoked by passages where the paintings transform from the early stages of monochromatic drawing to softly rendered colour. These timeless images capture welcome moments of reflection in a rapidly changing and fast-paced world.

Born in a farming community in Israel, Natty Saidi is the daughter of the prominent sculptor and muralist Moshe Saidi, who studied under Henry Moore at the Royal Academy in London. Through her family, Saidi had extensive early exposure to the arts. She went on to study at the Avini Institue of Fine Art in Tel Aviv, at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia, at Langara College in Vancouver and also trained as a graphic artist for the Israeli Army in 1977.

Natty Saidi lives in Vancouver and will be present for her opening.