Welcome to the Locke Collection.
This online gallery offers discerning collectors the opportunity to engage directly with the artist, ensuring authenticity, clarity, and connection.
Visitors to Mount Desert Island come for the natural beauty—for the rugged coastline, shifting light, and quiet moments that defy description. Here, you can take a piece of that experience home without compromising your time.
This way you can explore our collection at your own pace while exploring the beauty of the island.
Should you wish to learn more, a direct line to the artist is just a message away.
Natalie Locke’s work explores the psychological and emotional terrain of coastal living through minimal, abstracted renderings of the Maine shoreline. With compositions that lean into atmospheric ambiguity and color-driven emotion, her paintings evoke a sense of memory more than place—like the smell of salt air on skin or the fading hue of a distant headland at dusk. Locke’s coastal abstractions are less about realism and more about resonance, offering collectors a tactile fragment of stillness.
Medium
Original paintings, acrylic.
Each piece includes a signed certificate of authenticity, a short handwritten note on the emotional intent behind the work, and a fragment of sea glass found at the inspiration site — sealed in a wax-stamped envelope.
Natalie Dawn Locke
Contemporary Coastal Minimalism
Mount Desert Island, Maine
natalielocke@thelockecollection.com