Natalie Hatton
Natalie Hatton is currently a senior at Beaver Country Day School. She grew up as the youngest of four in a suburb just outside of Boston, Massachusetts. She has always had an adoration for art and with the help of her high school art teachers, she has been able to pursue her passion via Senior Studio. She found a deep love for painting and she finally found her own space to create. Although Natalie does not plan on pursuing art at Colgate University next fall, she will continue to paint and find other things that make her happy through life.
In my first couple weeks in senior studio (senior stu as we affectionately call it), I wrote an artist statement about challenging the conventions of art. My statement is no longer reflective of my senior studio experience. My senior spring has been cancelled, everything I’ve spent four years working towards has been shoved out the window, especially the senior art show. All of the hours spent up in the studio painting and planning our exhibits, just to have it ripped from our hands. I will never have another art class in the studio, I’ll never joke around with my eight classmates or film cringey TikToks. It’s over. But within this challenging time, I’ve found comfort in painting. My work has definitely taken a more melancholy route than when I was physically in the school, but it’s honest work. While this isn’t what I pictured my senior art show or whole senior spring to look like, I’m almost grateful for it. I know I can always pick up a paintbrush and feel peace for a couple of hours.
"I wish there was a way to know you were in the good old days before you actually left them."
- Andy Bernard.
