Born in Birmingham, England, Natalie has had an amazing, yet completely unplanned career as an artist.

Her parents bought her a handful of art supplies when she was just a young girl as she had already displayed natural artistic ability.

The first thing she painted was a portrait of Sting on her t-shirt and when she wore it to school, well, the rest is history.

Within only months, Natalie’s handpainted designs were being distributed worldwide to tourist resorts. It wasn’t long before the inevitable happened and she opened her own retail location.

The Byward Market in Ottawa, Canada was Natalie’s first retail venture. For three summers, still just a teen, she sold her work. At age 22, she opened the first handpainted-only clothing store in North America and was profiled on TV shows as far away as Tokyo.

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