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Natalie is an illustrator and designer currently living in
Switzerland. Her work is a playful exploration
of humorous characters, whimsical animals and graphic
botanicals.
By cutting, pasting,
slicing, manipulating and coloring paper into simple shapes and forms, she experiments with hybrids
and contrasts that curiously fascinate her, finding endless possibilities
. Perhaps it is a reflection of her multi-cultural upbringing that
informs her approach. She loves to continuously create and invent, finding it
necessary to be hands on with her work while using her beloved scalpel, pattern-cutting tools,
fine-liners, brush pen, colourful markers, adhesive-roll and correction
tape. Natalie’s illustrations reflect her long time involvement and
passion with fashion, which
she studied at St. Martin’s College in London, a celebrated university where she also lectured. Her sketchbooks embody treasures where her
artistic innovations and narrations are let loose and developed.
These unique paper-cut illustrations, linear drawings, doodles and
patterns are then fine-tuned to form compositions which are used as prints for
textiles, stationery and apparel.
Other
influences include art, design,
nature and music. However, her biggest inspiration and critique is her
son who inspired the
Alphabet print, which she designed when he started to read and write.