Hi, I'm Natalia Nadon,

and I'm an illustrator.

ukrainian Artist & designer based in munich

HUMAN RESISTANCE TO CHAOS AND DESTRUCTION

IS AIMED AT PRESERVING BEAUTY, SEARCHING FOR IT, ​CREATING AND CONSTRUCTING IT,

UNITING AND STRENGTHENING IT.

about me

graphic design ​illustration

collage art

mixed media art ​creative copywriting


about me

Natalia Nadon defended her master's thesis at the Kharkiv ​State Academy of Design and Arts, Ukraine, specializing in ​Visual Communication.

She worked as a graphic designer and art director in ​several advertising agencies.

For the past 15 years, she has been a senior lecturer in the ​Department of Graphic Design and Multimedia Design at ​the Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts.

Since March 2022, she has been living in Munich, where ​she began working with analog collage techniques for the ​first time.

The project is called **/Kleine Geschichte/** and currently ​includes several series of works, mixed-media collages of ​various sizes, textile panels, and small decorative elements.

She does not use any new materials in her work.

The collages combine various materials, printed matter, ​films, textiles, cardboard, and lace.

Embroidery is introduced as a graphic element.

MIXED MEDIA ART

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GRAPHIC DESIGN &

VECTOR ILLUSTRATION

MY EDUCATIONAL CHANNEL

MIXED MEDIA ART

series of my work

Black flowers of ​Ukraine. Ecocide. ​Genocide

Indigo. Instruction ​for healing

Modern mantras and ​mandalas

Woman of the world

MIXED MEDIA ART

series of my work

Graphic Stories

Small stories of ​Munich

Unstable structures

Uninhabited island


Flowers of civilization

All the works are ​created from ​previously ​printed materials ​and items bought ​at flea markets.


Nothing new was ​purchased for ​these works.


100% recycled

COLLAGE AS A GRAPHIC LANGUAGE,

as a Means of Visual Communication


In the modern world, much has already been produced.

We know that a person doesn't need so much.


But we don't know how to stop the endless consumption and endless production.

Collages emerge from what has already been produced.

Many good materials have already been created, paper and paint have been used,

and the meaning has quickly faded away.

Collages are a way to extend the life of existing objects, to give them new meanings

and a new chance.

I swap different parts of old stories and search for new meanings within them.

I find some fragments that are valuable to me, and I invent my own stories.

I want to show how much interesting stuff is stored where interest has already been lost.


Analog collage says a lot about the material.

It is FROM the material and often ABOUT the material.

A book, a painting, an embroidery, a tapestry, ceramic dishes—these objects have ​accompanied humanity for a long time. There should be a place in the modern world ​for good books, deep images, a place for thinking people, a place for unique homes.

If someone understands the value of a book or a painting, they will strive

to preserve it and pass it on.

Like other collage artists, I use the materials that come my way;

these are random mosaics.

My stones are the same pixels, but the pixels are alive, crumpled, useless, worn out,

and so sweet. I feel so sorry for this fleeting world, when everyone had books

at home, and those books were opened, read, cherished, thought about, highlighted,

and money was saved for them.

BLACK FLOWERS OF UKRAINE. Ecocide. Genocide.

I see many objects, the ukrainian artists create now.

Pain always gives a creative impulse. Lots of interesting ​things happen, but honestly I wanted to avoid this ​topic. For many reasons. But I didn't succeed.


Lush, stunning greenery, an abundance of flowers, ​Well-kept fields, meadows, powerful forests - they give ​so much, they heal, but why are there pictures of burnt, ​blasted land, black grass, mined forests, broken trees, ​mutilated fields, dead crops, flooded gardens.


Evil feeds from the black abyss and has no end. Black ​abyss of death on one side of the scales - this bowl is ​very, very difficult. It can overwrite. It has already ​destroyed my home houses and flowers....

Take care of yours, they are breathtakingly beautiful...

BLACK FLOWERS OF UKRAINE. Ecocide. Genocide.

INDIGO. INSTRUCTION FOR HEALING

Healing is an individual process and unique. But the ​interaction with color is healing in itself. Especially when it ​comes to the color indigo, which has been known for its ​special properties since ancient times. Therefore, it would ​perhaps be more correct to describe these works as self-​therapy. Everyone needs such simple moments that give ​inner peace, such as silence, a walk in nature, deep ​breathing, fresh air. These are the basic sources. We can ​use them at any time and recharge our batteries. A more ​subtle charge is created by color, by light hitting the color ​(e.g. colored glass or a transparent petal). My works are ​about these pulsations. Light and color halos around ​sources, about animations. This pulsation that ​distinguishes living things from non-living things. In ​principle, there is no special secret here. You just need to ​tune in to these vibrations. Man was created to see and ​feel the living fabric of the world, and the more subtly he is ​able to do this, the richer he is.


INDIGO. INSTRUCTION FOR HEALING

MODERN MANTRAS & MANDALAS

MODERN MANTRAS & MANDALAS

A modern mandala is strikingly ​minimalist. There is no time, no strength, ​no hope. It resembles a bullet hole, an ​eerie portal to another dimension. The ​symbol, which has been embedded in ​mandalas for centuries, remains ​unchanged – it is a plea, a spell, a hope. ​However, these works are created to ​reveal how sorrowful a prayer can be. ​The celebration is gone. What remains ​is concentration and prayer.

WOMAN OF THE WORLD

The essence of femininity intertwines with the ​timeless beauty of architecture, symbolizing the ​profound connection between women and the ​lands they inhabit. Each collage captures the face ​of a woman as the embodiment of her world—a ​guardian of heritage, the keeper of family and home, ​and the bearer of secret knowledge essential for ​survival.

These works explore the soul of the woman as the ​cornerstone of civilization, her strength rooted in ​the earth, her spirit reaching beyond the confines of ​time. Through layered textures and intricate details, ​each piece invites you to explore the delicate ​balance between the physical and the spiritual, the ​known and the unknown.


WOMAN OF THE WORLD

GRAPHIC STORIES

GRAPHIC STORIES

SMALL STORIES OF MUNICH CITY

SMALL STORIES

OF MUNICH CITY

My living space is the city. I am in the ​historic center of a large cultural city

with a rich history and original ​architecture born and raised.

The layers of cultures and eras,

the interconnectedness of human life

and home, like a human through

Things filled his homeland with his ​presence - that has I've always been

interested. These stories still fascinate me.

When using lace fragments arises a ​longing for the house in which four

generations my family lived, after my ​grandmother, for childhood.

SMALL STORIES OF MUNICH CITY

UNSTABILE STRUCTURE.

UNINHABITED ISLAND

Unstable structures with bridges and stairs,

surrounded by water.

The central theme of all my works is the fragility

and vulnerability of beauty and all that is good

in this world.

The human struggle against chaos and destruction; ​the attempt to preserve, create, and build,

to connect and strengthen.

As if waves of chaos are drawing ever closer

to our homes.

We must reinforce the foundations, strengthen

the walls, and light the lamps in the windows.

An inhabited island is a symbol of hope.

UNSTABILE STRUCTURE.

UNINHABITED ISLAND

FLOWERS OF CIVILATION

FLOWERS ARE WHAT GROW, BLOOM, AND DIE.

BEAUTY IS ALWAYS FRAGILE.

ALL CIVILIZATIONS, AFTER REACHING

THEIR PEAK, PERISHED SLOWLY, QUICKLY, ​INEXORABLY, OR COLLAPSED ALL AT ONCE.

THEY LEFT US THEIR FRAGMENTS.

FROM THESE SHARDS, PEOPLE TRY TO ​CREATE THE NEXT CIVILIZATIONS.

BUT IT IS SO DIFFICULT TO PRESERVE

THAT WHICH TRULY SHINES AND IS ​VALUABLE.


A CASTLE BUILT FROM PRECIOUS ​FRAGMENTS IS VERY FRAGILE.

THE MOST IMPORTANT ELEMENTS ​CONSTANTLY SEPARATE FROM IT

AND FADE AWAY INTO THE DARKNESS ​WITHOUT A TRACE.

FLOWERS OF CIVILATION

VECTOR ILLUSTRATION

My style in vector illustration is ​distinguished by its conciseness, ​constructiveness, and maximum ​stylization.


Main motives: infographics for children's ​projects, architecture, interiors, city,

signs and logos for various business


You can see more of my works

from​ different periods here:​





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More than creativity, art ​takes a lot of courage.

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