Natalie Paddick

Born at home in East Finchley, London where my brother spent hours trying to teach me to ride a bike, drive a go-cart, or even catch a ball. Whilst I have none of the coordination skills that these activities required I am pleased to say that I preferred to develop my passion to visualise.
At eight years old my family up-rooted to the riverside village of Wraysbury, Berkshire. My parents had taken on a new project to design and build their ideal luxury home, which my father continues to rebuild and then deconstruct to this day.
This forever changing construction experience allowed me to view all aspects of design. I got to study shape, colour and proportion on every dimension. My mother, the ultimate fashionista, exercised with a passion her mercurial interior design concepts, whatever was the trend of the moment we had to have. Returning home after school from the ghastly Windsor Convent I would be confronted by the next design idea, “tear sheets” from magazines taped to the wall, along with bits of fabric, wall paper and usually some Objet D’art from John Lewis homeware, which we were not allowed to remove the sale tag, as she would no doubt be returning the item back to John Lewis, once this particular design phase was over! N...