Natasha Smart is a wet felting textile artist, which means that she starts with materials such as wool fibres and through a multi-step process (which involves water, as you might have guessed) she ends up making a unique piece of fabric. It’s like magic to see her start with wispy pieces of wool and have them latch on to each other and end up as a firm, solid piece of material.

Letting her imagination run loose, she then uses that textile to create all kinds of items - handbags, ornaments, bowls, decorations, and lamp shades, to name a few.

She’s based in Exmouth, Devon in the UK and says she finds great inspiration in the coastal living she enjoys there.

On this episode, host Angela de Burger chats with Natasha about how she discovered this art form and why she loves it so much, the things that inspire her to create, her approach when starting a new project, and how teaching fuels her own creativity.

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