The English Garden

The Great Indoors

For Natasha Hulse, indoors was never very distinct from outdoors. Growing up with an artistic streak on the edge of the New Forest, she was given free rein to paint onto clothes, walls, and anything with a surface. The pattern of a leaf foraged on a morning stroll could be transferred onto the back of a chair that very same day.

By the time Natasha was 17, one wall of her bedroom was adorned with the curling, apple-laden branches of a jewellery tree. Elsewhere in the room was a metal chair welded into the shape of leaves, its soft seat covered in daisies. Natasha reupholstered the chair

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