Background, training and exhibition history

Nathan Menglesis is a draughtsman and painter whose work moves between ink, pencil and paint. His personal art space documents the working process: sketchbook pages, works in progress, and the finished series collected under Portfolio.

The site itself has been part of the practice since 2008, when it was titled Drawing [and Or Painting Too I Guess] and rebuilt on WordPress with Zenphoto handling the image galleries.

This curriculum vitae page serves as a working record of an artistic education, tracing the training, selected exhibitions and residencies that shaped a draughtsman-and-painter practice working between ink, pencil and paint. Rather than a polished résumé, it reads like a studio notebook opened to a visitor, listing the circles and institutions the artist has moved within alongside finished series and works in progress.

The personal art space documented here has been part of the practice since the late 2000s, when the site carried a playful working title before being rebuilt on a modern publishing platform. That continuity matters: the pages function as both archive and process, gathering sketchbook pages, studies and collected series under a single portfolio so that the slow, cumulative character of a drawing-based practice remains visible to anyone browsing.

Visitors to this section are invited to move at their own pace through background, training and exhibition history, using the entries as signposts toward the broader body of work presented elsewhere on the site. The presentation keeps a restrained, professional tone, allowing the artwork and the record of it to speak, while reflecting a long-running commitment to documenting making rather than only displaying results.