Nourished at the sources of blues, jazz, and the ancestral music of all the continents, Natasha Krenbol is among those artists whose global culture and mixed blood seem to contain the memory of every vanishing ethnic group: one in a family of primitive and cosmopolitan poets who belong to the larger family of endangered Mother Earth.
Her works draw their inspiration from what is commonly termed the "Third-World" and from contact with countries where life is simple and resources are often scarce. No wonder that her works should open frontiers, which in her opinion, should have disappeared long ago.
In the process, another mental life became familiar to Krenbol. For her, "objective chances", signs, encounters form a web that makes everyday life mystical in an age when life itself is surrealistic.
For her, painting is total commitment, a way of life, of breathing, as is music that accompanies her everywhere. She offers us the possibility of seeing other tunes and other blends. Her paintings are full of life: there everything dances and everything moves.
Animals, plants, human beings, imaginary creatures, all beings are of equal merit in Krenbol's universe, where the small and the great are of equal importance in the eyes of the Creator. One senses a particular tenderness for the one thousand and one small, essential details of contingency, which form the miracle and the charm of existence.
It is here perhaps that resides the secret of what gives so much life to these works: the superimposition of at least two worlds, two concerns, at variance and at the same time complimentary, just as in life. Poetry rediscovers the space of free expression, and one senses the freshness of an unfettered and talented improvisation.
