Trained in the classical traditions of modeling and bronze casting, she has developed a body of work that stands in direct dialogue with the great figurative artists of history. A California native, Natalie was raised in Santa Barbara, where she began drawing and painting at an early age. She received commissions and awards for outstanding achievement as early as grade school and attended life-drawing classes by the age of thirteen. At eighteen, she enrolled at the University of California, Davis, where she studied under renowned San Francisco artist Wayne Thiebaud and sculptor Robert Arneson. Natalie later earned her Bachelor of Arts with high honors in Fine Art from the University of California, Santa Barbara. In 2009, after studying with master figurative sculptor Richard MacDonald at his Monterey, California studio, she began casting her clay sculptures in bronze.

Natalie’s spiritual practice, along with extensive travel to sacred sites and temples throughout Laos, Japan, Vietnam, Thailand, Bhutan, and Cambodia, deeply influenced her artistic direction and inspired her to focus on spiritually based sculpture, particularly Buddhist imagery.

Beginning in 2007, her pilgrimages to India led to profound spiritual experiences through time spent with Sri Sakthi Narayani Amma, a spiritual teacher and revered avatar. Her study and lived experience of Shaktism under Amma’s guidance inspired her sculptural work depicting Hindu deities. Today, these bronze sculptures are housed at Sripuram, where they are honored in daily puja at the Sri Narayani Hospital and Research Centre’s meditation hall, as well as at the Sri Narayani Holistic Center.

In addition to Sri Sakthi Narayani Amma, Natalie’s artwork has been blessed by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Amma Sri Karunamayi.  Her dharma is to serve the Divine through her art in order to uplift humanity and help make the world a more peaceful, beautiful and loving place.  

Nataji® has shipped Natalie Cederquist Levin’s inspirational bronzes around the world to our treasured International clientele.

Natalie is an award-winning artist who sculpts with passion and presence

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