A new name on the canvas

Artists change their names for all sorts of reasons. Some do it to escape a famous parent, some to escape an unfortunate one, and a few simply because the original would not fit on a gallery wall. Nataliia Moiseienko's reason is more practical and rather more cheerful: after thirty years of painting, two countries and a great many exhibitions, she wanted one short, memorable name for the work she is making now. Hence Nata Mo.

The name is new; the hand is not. Trained at the Mykhailo Boichuk Kyiv State Academy of Decorative Applied Arts and Design and the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine, with a formative spell in Paris at the Sorbonne Nouvelle, she has been exhibiting since the mid-1990s — in Ukraine, France, Italy and, since 2022, England. Her paintings sit in several hundred private collections, from Kyiv to Canada.

What lives here

This site is where the whole practice finally sits under one roof. The gallery gathers the two strands of her current work: the crisp, ink-and-watercolour portraits of coastal towns that have become something of a local fixture, and the heavier, textured mixed-media landscapes that are heading for open exhibitions and regional galleries next year.

The shop carries the whole studio catalogue — the same originals and signed limited-edition prints as our five-star Etsy shop — printed, framed and packed in the studio rather than by a faceless warehouse. Pay securely by card, and most pieces travel free and tracked across the UK.

Keep in touch

News — new paintings, new print editions, where to find the stand at markets and fairs, and what the selectors made of the open-call submissions — will appear here first. If you would rather it came to you, the mailing list at the foot of this page sends an occasional letter. Occasional means occasional: there is painting to be done.