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¡Fifi Gi! Welcome to ¡Fifi Gi! a place to embrace the more in home decor! ¡Fifi Gi! Armstrong is a mixed media & collage artist who created ¡Fifi Gi!

Storied Collage Art is the work of mixed media artist Natalie Armstrong—femme surreal, narrative collage that explores femininity, myth, and
visual memory. is a maximalist art and furniture store from local Monroe-based artisan, Natalie Armstrong. in 2022 and named it after her two wild and wonderful daughters, Gigi and Phoebe. Armstrong enjoys finding new ways to bring her designs to life via fu

rniture, art, and home decor to bring a sense of playful funk to the home!

¡Fifi Gi! embraces the freedom of the maximalist concept, "more is more", in its joyful exploration with patterns, color, and of course all things fringe!

06/11/2026

I'm excited to share the second piece in my new Daughters of Eve series: The Offering. 🌿✨

This series began as a way for me to reimagine Eve—not as a symbol of shame or exile, but as a figure of wisdom, creation, and quiet strength.

In The Offering, she stands surrounded by albino deer, golden eggs, berries, cypress trees, and small votive vessels. As I worked on this piece, I kept thinking about the things we tend in life—our relationships, our families, our dreams—and how much of that care happens quietly, without recognition.

I wanted this piece to feel devotional and peaceful, like a small sacred space. A reminder that there is beauty in nurturing, in giving, and in showing up again and again for the things we love.

Thank you for following along as this series continues to grow. It means so much to share these new stories with you. 💙

05/28/2026

I’m really happy to share the final piece in my Crescent Wilds series — The House That Fed the Rougarou 🤍

This series has been such a special one for me, rooted in my love for New Orleans, the bayou, and the magic, folklore, and everyday beauty that lives there.

In this piece, a Creole mermaid balances atop a giant crawfish, surrounded by oversized florals, wandering chickens, winged alligators, and a hidden shotgun house. It’s a playful but layered world, inspired by the Rougarou legend and the idea of exchange, survival, and community in the bayou — where everything feels connected in its own quiet way.

It feels bittersweet to close out this series, but I’m so grateful for the time I’ve spent in this world and for everyone who’s followed along with me through it.

Thank you for being here and supporting my work — it truly means so much 🤍

05/26/2026

So excited and honored to share that I’m featured in Suboart Magazine (Issues 60 & 61), out now ✨

Feeling incredibly grateful to be included alongside so many talented artists from around the world—truly humbled to be part of this.

This double issue features 67 artists across 254 pages, with work from over 15 countries and all areas of visual art.

You can check it out online here: Suboartmagazine

Thank you so much to Suboart for including my work!

05/12/2026

I’m excited to finally share the beginning of a new series I’ve been quietly working on called Daughters of Eve.

This series grew out of thinking about femininity, nature, devotion, transformation, and the many different ways women learn to carry power, softness, responsibility, beauty, and contradiction all at once. I’ve been especially inspired by prayer cards and devotional imagery, using that visual language to reimagine different versions of Eve not as warnings or fallen figures, but as women worthy of reverence within their own mythologies.

The series is also deeply shaped by Southern landscapes, gardens, bayous, folklore, and the idea of creating a more expansive and self-defined mythology around womanhood.

The first piece in the series is called The Garden Keeper.

In this work, Eve appears as a quiet guardian rooted within these bayou Edens — surrounded by lilies, lemons echoing the fruit of Eve, suspended golden eggs, and watchful white alligators.

This series is very special to me, and I’m excited to slowly share more of these daughters and the worlds they inhabit. 🤍

04/30/2026

Feeling incredibly grateful to share that my artwork Bayou Swing is featured on the May cover of Country Roads Magazine 🌿✨

Truly honored to be included and still a little in disbelief—this piece means so much to me, and it’s such a joy to see it out in the world in this way.

Thank you to everyone who continues to support my work—I am truly grateful . 💛

Country Roads Magazine

03/19/2026

I just finished this new piece in my Crescent Wilds series called "The House That Turned Pink". In this one, the bayou slips into a dreamlike moment where pink mist rises from the water and quietly transforms everything it touches—a place where egrets and flamingos share the marsh, a roseate spoonbill slowly morphs into a flamingo mid-snack, and pink moths drift through the air. At the center, a snake-wrapped bird king and his mermaid queen in feather headdresses, keep watch over a tiny pink shotgun birdhouse resting atop oversized florals, while pink winged gators move through the sky and rose-colored ladybugs settle on the leaves. I set the collage on a wood panel inside weathered pink shutters adorned with tiny hand-painted pink ladybugs.

While working on this, I kept thinking about how the bayou has always felt a little magical to me—like the landscape itself is constantly shifting, changing, and telling its own strange stories. ✨

02/19/2026

I’m excited to share a new piece from my Crescent Wilds series — The House That Whispers.

This one is my take on the feu follet through a Voodoo lens: a weathered shotgun house fading into the bayou at that electric, green hour right before a storm. There are little guardians and spirits tucked throughout — candles, bells, creatures, and a watchful mermaid — all meant to feel beautiful, reverent, and just a little haunting.

Mixed media collage on wood panel, set in green shutters to hold that soft bayou glow. Thanks for looking and letting me share this world with you 💚

02/12/2026

I’m so proud to finally share the final and centerpiece work from my Tattered Rhyme series, Mother of All, Mother of None.

This piece challenged me at every turn — technically, compositionally, and conceptually. There were moments I wasn’t sure I would ever finish this piece, but pushing through those uncertainties made it one of the most transformative works I’ve created. I truly stretched myself with this one, and I couldn’t be more proud of how it came together.

I’m also honored and excited to announce that this piece will be included in this year’s Bloom exhibit at the R.W. Norton Art Gallery.

Mother of All, Mother of None
32.5 x 33 inches
Mixed media collage on wood panel, mounted in an ornate frame with bird nests, nursery rhyme text, and bound florals.

This work is part of my Tattered Rhyme series and examines the myth of motherhood as female destiny. Drawing from traditional nursery rhymes, it explores how early childhood stories quietly shape expectations around caretaking, fertility, sacrifice, and worth. Here, bloom becomes both promise and pressure.

I’m deeply grateful for the opportunity to share this work publicly and to see this series come full circle.

R.W. Norton Art Gallery

01/01/2026

As 2025 comes to a close, I’m feeling incredibly grateful. This year brought new people, new places, and so many meaningful opportunities in the art world. I’ve learned more than I ever expected and felt deeply supported by friends, family, and the creative community around me.

Thank you to everyone who showed me grace, encouragement, and love along the way. I’m so excited to continue growing, learning, and exploring new projects in the year ahead. This journey has been beautiful, and I can’t wait to see where it leads next.

xoxo
Natalie

12/23/2025

🌑 NEW WORK + EXHIBITION ANNOUNCEMENT 🌑

I’m so so honored and excited to share "Dilly, Dilly, She Fades", a new piece from my Tattered Rhyme series, now included in the group exhibition, If It’s Not Baroque, at The Poetic Tiger Gallery. You can now view the exhibit at poetictiger.com!

This work reimagines Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater, Tinker Tailor Soldier Sailor, and Lavender’s Blue to examine how marriage, purity, and the idea of being “kept” have been romanticized through tradition. A pale bride sits sealed inside a glass case beneath a soft pink canopy—part pedestal, part prison—while crows, broken petals marked 'he loves me no't, and a ring-bearing dove threaded with hidden thorns hint at devotion laced with loss.

The entire piece is housed in an ornate pearl-white wooden frame adorned with beaded trim, tiny paper roses, and a lace bow—Baroque excess that mirrors how confinement is often dressed up as beauty. I’m honored to have this work included in an exhibition celebrating bold ornamentation, drama, and contemporary interpretations of excess.

Thank you always for following and supporting my work!

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