My friend Natalie Dower, who has died aged 92, was a highly respected artist whose abstract paintings, sculpture and 3D reliefs featured in many notable exhibitions exploring Systems and Constructivist art from the early 1980s onwards, including Rhythm and Geometry at the Sainsbury Centre, Norwich (2021).
Natalie was a wonderfully direct and inspiring person, whose work reflected a searching intelligence and true independence of character. An “artists’ artist”, she was deeply committed, painted every day and paid little attention to developing a public career. Paula Rego described her in the Art Newspaper in 2019 as one of the UK’s “most underrated” cultural figures.
