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Byline: Leslie Camhi
Natasha Law is sitting in the Park Avenue salon of Blair Voltz Clarke, a young art impresario and the curator of "Natasha Law: Stills," an exhibition opening this month at Diane von Furstenberg's Manhattan studio. Hanging on the wall is one of Law's paintings, a glossy white square across whose pleasingly lacquered surface-recalling all manner of feminine things, from a perfectly polished nail to the icing on a petit four-a puzzle of forms and lines evokes a woman's breast, mesmerizing as a bull's-eye.
The daughter of a London schoolteacher and a headmaster with a passion for drama, Law grew up in a big Victorian house playing dress-up with her famous brother, Jude, who is two and a half years younger. ("He was always quite mature for his age," the 34-year-old artist recalls with sisterly affection.) Later, she studied graphic design at Camberwell College of Arts. And while her brother's meteoric acting career took off, she spent a few fallow years-like many young artists-puttering around her studio.
The time paid off. Two ...