Louis Buhl & Co. is pleased to present a new screenprint edition with Natalie Wadlington, titled Girl Digging Moat. Wadlington’s practice centers around creating richly-colored paintings that are based in story-telling and figuration. Wadlington views the interactions presented within her works as metaphors that communicate larger archetypal narratives of love, conflict, and misjudgment, specifically in our relationship to animals. 

Through collaging different painting styles within Girl Digging Moat’s frame that tightly surrounds her subjects, Wadlington places equal but varying importance on both figure and animal. Hierarchies in the narrative are leveled so that the actors in the scenes are simultaneously storyteller, protagonist, and antagonist. The figures playfully engage within natural spaces, simultaneously providing hope and angst, a dichotomy that creates a subtle tension within Wadlington’s work.