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.
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:

AI ART
Prompt Engeneering
More than creativity, art takes a lot of courage.

I'd love to hear from you
graphic design
illustration
collage art
mixed media art
creative copywriting
natalynadyon5@gmail.com