Natalia Velez Carrero is inspired by feelings and informed by her photographs and moments of discovery. Invested in the power of color, light, and the versatility of oil paint, she explores the ways in which she can communicate her innermost feelings and ideas.
 
Her current body of work investigates the potential that night presents and the abundance of narratives that emerge from it. Under the comfort that night provides, she is able to reveal themes of escapism, solitude, and melancholy. Her visual language consists of how color, absence, light, objects, reflections, and transparencies can be used to tell a story. Many of her work is rooted in her own lived experiences and memories, and is now incorporating ways of being present with the making of the memory and the painting.
 
Often drawing inspiration from specific locations, she studies the unique characteristics of a place and looks for specific color relationships to inform her paintings. She is continuing her investigations of how the night can reveal new perspectives (or buried convictions), and how various cities and countries transform in the late hours of the night.