Nathalie Hildegarde Liege works as a fine artist with a diversity of media, applied to the themes or subjects she works with.

Lately she made the choice to work again with photography (as it was the first visual art she trained with back in the 80s). It simply came  back and about with the use of photographs in architectural glass for St Luke's Church windows and lead to the Eco Vistas  photographs and other albums.

Architectural glass is an integral part of her artwork. She worked in a variety of techniques from leaded lights, leaded and painted traditional stained glass windows, to more contemporary designs for techniques such as fusing and research with textures, casting, or experimenting with double glazing.

This has been applied to different kinds of environments, from churches, to private commissions, community based projects and public buildings.

Aesthetically, Nathalie Hildegarde Liege came to explore the use of charcoal black or blue black textures keeping glass as a translucent material ( Gobowen Hospital ), all matt or satin textures of traditional glass paints in contemporary architecture ( Cyber Café, Cineworld or Pitch ), the use of fusing combined with glass paints for the most challenging illustrative aims ( Gobowen Hospital ), low relief glass or photographic materials with glass for St Luke's Church. She also worked at the new designs applied to leaded lights.

Between 2003 and 2005, she had to have a bone marrow transplant.The transplant was successful and she is fully cured and all clear after five years of regular check up.

She made two donations in return for the great care which has been given to her by the medical profession. One work has been installed in the entrance hall of the Hamar Help and Support Centre for people with cancer and other serious illnesses, the other work will be located in the new Heamatology Day Surgery which will be built once the amount needed is raised, both are in the grounds of the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital, Shropshire.

2008 and 2009 were  about the completion of St Luke’s Church windows for the Chapel of The Virgin Mary in Grimethorpe (Yorkshire) and work at various forthcoming projects of which writting and illustrating children stories. It is all presented in her blog

http://larts.wordpress.com

2010 plenty to come and research taking place...

Before 2010

2010, two full day sessions, Working with children in Shropshire

            July 2010, Open Studios in Shrewsbury

            Research:

            On Icons, geometry and contemporary designs for further application to stained glass

            Writting of children stories

            Photography

2009, Conservation and painting, glass-painting master-class at the Department of History of Art, at the University of York

2007, Art Council England Grant for St Luke’s Church Virgin Mary architectural glass project

	July 2001, West Midlands Arts Creative Ambition Award   Journeymans Award 1998-2000, from The Worshipful Company of Glaziers & Painters of Glass
B.A., (North East Wales Institute) Glass Design H.N.D., (Swansea Institute) Architectural Glass Licence Arts Plastiques                ( Sorbonne Paris)  Fine Arts*

 * among the subjects studied in Sorbonne: Literature, Pedagogics and Arts, Phsychology and Psychoanalysis, Aesthetic, Musulman Aesthetic, Ethnology (sub-Saharian), Poetry writting.

Arts professional experience

(Exhibitions are listed in the page With the community)

Guest Artist, Symposium on 3D print technologies and their creative Application within the Arts, 9th December 2009

Initiator and Guest curator, of the architectural glass and painting exhibition ‘Picture or Delay in Glass 13 October 2001 - 24 November 2001 and Conference taking place 21rst November 2001 (speakers: Alfred Fisher, John McClenaghen, Andrew Moor, Caroline Swash, Chris Bird-Jones, Nathalie Liège, Benjamin Finn), Wrexham Arts Centre (North Wales), in partnership with the Memorial Gallery, Yale College (Wrexham)

Invited Lecturer North East Wales Institute, Wrexham, 1st and 3rd Year B.A Glass Design, April 2001, leading workshops

Apprenticeship with Herve Debitus Studio, (Monuments Conservation Glass), Tours, France

One year apprenticeship with Gerard Lardeur, (leading National Sculptor and Stained Glass Artist), Paris, France

Middle Age stained glass tracing painting techniques at the Centre International du Vitrail, Chartres, France

Guide in Georges Pompidou Centre as well as fine artist in Paris, France, 1987 until 1994

Guide in the Musee d’Orsay as well as fine artist in Paris, France, for one year