Natalie graduated from Camberwell College of Arts with a first-class honours degree in illustration. After developing a series of embroidered works, she undertook further training at the Royal School of Needlework (RSN), which confirmed her aspiration to learn specialist embroidery techniques and inspire a passion for embroidery in others. She graduated from the RSN’s Future Tutor Programme with Distinction in 2022, receiving the RSN Broderers’ Award for Top Student.

During the Future Tutors Programme, Natalie taught Learning Curve classes for the RSN at the Knitting and Stitching Show, London, and the Hand and Lock exhibition in 2021. She has also assisted on RSN International Summer School courses and family drop-in sessions at the Fashion and Textile Museum. Since graduating Natalie has taught RSN day classes and on the Certificate and Diploma programme including a Summer Intensive.

Natalie is interested in exploring and reinventing traditional techniques and motifs in her own pieces of contemporary embroidery. She has exhibited her work as part of the RSN display at the 2022 Knitting and Stitching Shows and at RSN graduate exhibitions at Hampton Court Palace and Sunbury Embroidery Gallery. Her work was also selected to appear at the Broderers’ Exhibition, 2022.

In 2023, Natalie was honoured to be part of the Embroidery Studio team at the Royal School of Needlework who worked on the Anointing Screen for the Coronation of Their Majesties King Charles III and Queen Camilla.