Plenilune

This was one of two paintings created in response to an encounter that I had with a barn owl outside my home. It was mid-morning and I live near the beach in Australia, so this meeting was a rather shocking one for me, an event that I am certain was linked to the full lunar eclipse that occurred the night before. This event marked a turning point in my life, without a doubt.

While the first painting embodied the energy of a full lunar eclipse, her sister painting brings the energy of the Plenilune (meaning the time of the full moon).

This painting embodies several feminine aspects - the light and power of the full moon, our profound connection to the natural world, the power of our attention and how it is used. The importance of being still, mindful, aware. In the months that followed that lunar eclipse, the same message was reinforced time and time again, in all different ways. When we allow stillness into our lives, we can hear our inner voice. From this place, we can seek guidance from our intuition.

Living in connection with our inner wisdom brings us into greater connection with all living things, and in turn, our lives become deeper, richer and infinitely more magical.

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Natasha Zraikat is a multi award-winning magical realism artist. She was born in the USA to Jordanian-Palestinian and Russian-Ukrainian parents, soon after migrating to Australia with her family as a child.

Natasha is fascinated with the seen and unseen worlds and how the two interconnect. Her current body of work describes her own journey of spiritual growth and awakening. This has been one of the most difficult yet rewarding experiences of her life so far, and she felt called on a soul level to pour this experience into her work and to share it with complete honesty.

‘To me, art is a portal to unseen worlds – an expression of the divine essence within each of us’ she explains. ‘The universe is indeed within us, and what we cultivate within is reflected without – in our physical reality. As our world shifts, both on Earth and in the heavens, many of us can perceive a pulling back of the ‘veil’ of the physical world as we know it.’ says Natasha.

In 2025, Natasha recently appeared as a contestant on Portrait Artist of the Year Australia, now showing on ABC TV Australia and also won the 2025 Dean Cogle Portrait Prize. She also won First Prize in the City-Wide Art VIII Competition in Florence, Italy. Her work has been collected and exhibited across Australia, the USA and Europe, and has been featured in multiple publications including Beautiful Bizarre magazine.