Painting Femininity, motherhood, childhood, simplicity, spontaneity, energy, Africa is a deep inspiration for the artist, discovering his identity, Caribbean, European.
Many of Nathalie Okra's works are mixed portraits mixing the figurative and the abstract, the natural and the urban, the geometric and the fluid, inspired by both African (primitive art, African masks, symbols) and European (symbolism) arts. , surrealism, contemporary art) it is a mixture of the two worlds which meet on the canvas, resulting from a double culture the artist shows it and expresses it in his work without ambiguity.
Acrylic paint as well as other materials like spray paint, or chalk are used vividly and contrast on canvas or paper, she emphasizes color, but sometimes likes to mix black and white elements with it. His works are contrasted by their colors, the materials, and the emotions that emerge from them. His art is in motion and is not fixed in a final form, it is in perpetual evolution.
Nathalie Okra art gives strong and powerful images of Black representation, she melts all her origins in one pot and brings something different but familiar.
Flavours of Culture from West Indies, France, and Africa dance on canvas, in so many different ways, but always succeed to mix with some kind of harmony. Universal and Local at the same time. She wants to explore videos, Visual art, and performance, she already did a short fiction, and she really likes to express through moving images.
