The timed auction ends Thursday September 17th at 8:00pm. Whoever holds the highest bid at the auction closing time wins.
Natalie Bessell
Mother and Daughter, 2026
tempera on linen, timber frame
Height 34.5 cm x Width 30 cm
Artwork is framed and ready to hang & comes with a certificate of authenticity
Starting Bid: $750
A mother and daughter are pictured close together in profile, the daughter resting against her. A small dog stands in the distance under a warm, sweeping sky, with a bold red bloom unfurling above them. The palette is soft and warm, built from layered pinks, ochres and blues that give the piece an intimate, quiet feel. Initialed lower left and signed and dated on the back.
Housed in the artist’s own green-painted pine frame, produced to complement the palette of the work.
Artist Bio: Natalie Bessell (b. 1992) grew up in San Diego, California and has lived in Australia since 2021. She is a multi-media artist, with a focus on painting. Featuring figurative and abstract elements, her recent work primarily involves oil pastels on wood and painted glaze on ceramics.
She draws inspiration from her life as a new mother in a semi-rural beach town on the Mornington Peninsula, in the outskirts of Melbourne. Themes of nature, fertility, motherhood, and femininity have pervaded her work both before and after she became a mother. This reflects her more general fascination with the intersection of that which is ordinary and that which is magnificent.
photograph- Bri Horne
Dimensions:
34.5 cm x 30 cm