From my home to yours
by Natalia Gutiérrez, 2024.
This is a portrait of resilience.
My mom raised my brother and me as a single parent, balancing multiple jobs and overcoming countless challenges in a world that often undervalues the work of women like her.
Now that I’m kind of settled in the UK, I can only start to imagine what my mom went through when she left everything behind to give us a better future. Starting from nothing, in an unfamiliar place, with all the uncertainty and sacrifice that comes with it, it’s something I never fully grasped until I found myself in a similar position.
This is a tribute to her strength, her sacrifice, and to all those who carry the weight of both roles, navigating the struggles with courage and love.
Publication Date: 9 November 2025
Size: 5 x 7
Materials: oil on wood
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2024
140 x 100 cm
Oil on Canvas
In this piece, a man finds solace in reading the Bible within the serene confines of a church. The stained-glass window, depicting the nativity scene, bathes him in ethereal light. Despite the symbolic burning effect on certain parts of his being, the man maintains an unwavering serenity.
This composition serves as a visual narrative reflecting my perception of a man’s internal struggle. It encapsulates the emotional conflict of a feeling torn between personal beliefs and the impact it has on their own flesh and blood.
Through this work I sought to navigate my own emotions, using the creative process as a means of understanding and ultimately forgiving, transforming the canvas into an exercise in empathy and reconciliation.
by Natalia Gutierrez, 2024
These works are a homage to my family’s migration journey from Colombia to Spain, and to those family members who remained behind, as well as those we lost and could not bid farewell to.
After living in the UK for 4 years, I’ve come to understand a small part of what my family went through by leaving their life as they knew it behind and start all over again and adapt to a new culture in a new country. Back when we moved to Spain, I was a child, and although I did went through a long endless adaptation period, a lot of these things were bigger and more complicated than my little brain could understand.
It is very hard to create a new home while constantly mourning your old one, but it is inconceivable to ever forget the place that first taught you what a home is. Adapting to a new culture without losing your identity as it was, staying true to your ways at the risk of being misunderstood and judged, is an act of bravery and defiance that never ends.
Publication Date: June 11, 2024
Size: 122×142cm
Materials: oil paint on cotton canvas stretched on wood
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by Natalia Gutiérrez, 2024.
These works are a homage to my family’s migration journey from Colombia to Spain, and to those family members who remained behind, as well as those we lost and could not bid farewell to.
After living in the UK for 4 years, I’ve come to understand a small part of what my family went through by leaving their life as they knew it behind and start all over again and adapt to a new culture in a new country. Back when we moved to Spain, I was a child, and although I did went through a long endless adaptation period, a lot of these things were bigger and more complicated than my little brain could understand.
It is very hard to create a new home while constantly mourning your old one, but it is inconceivable to ever forget the place that first taught you what a home is. Adapting to a new culture without losing your identity as it was, staying true to your ways at the risk of being misunderstood and judged, is an act of bravery and defiance that never ends.
Part 2
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Publication Date: June 11, 2024
Size: 122×142cm
Materials: oil paint on cotton canvas stretched on wood
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Oil on canvas, 80x88cm, 2024.
The kitchen smelled of fabric and memories. As my granma’s hands stitched my graduation cord with the colours of a home we left behind, I painted her, the weight of her sacrifices brushing each stroke. Her heart, still wandering the streets of Tuluá, kneeling before El Señor De Los Milagros, never fully settled there in Spain. Twenty years in Andalucía, yet her devotion remains tied to that distant church we visited on small family trips, its image now painted into this portrait.
Our conversations lingers between then and now, stitching together the fragments of a life split across continents. The tiles I sketched later, inspired by the walls of our home in Sevilla, frame every moment with cool, intricate beauty, but never quite held the warmth of a home.
Paintings
2019
25×20cm
This was the first oil portrait I ever made, probably the one that got me into art university!
It depicts the a young Little from the film Moonlight.
Other Art Forms: Prints, Ceramics, Fabrics
2022
20×30cm
Screen printed on heavy satin paper.
Made in collaboration with artist Shuang Yang.
Upcoming Exhibitions
November 15
Open Studios
Koppel Heights
London