Natalie’s work explores cars and the car community, which is a big passion of hers. She often works in acrylic paint or charcoal. Mostly utilizing charcoal pencils or small brushes, to allow her to get very crisp and detailed results. She explores the beauty in design, reflections on the paint, and the mechanical side of cars. She also dives into the relationships people have with their own cars, as well as the cars surrounding them. She often captures her reference photos at local car meets and events. She finds that these events are the easiest place to capture people naturally enjoying cars, and doesn’t make her work feel staged as a result. 

Natalie also investigates the difference in experience for people that have a passion for cars, and those that do not. She does this by creating work that is zoomed in and out of a scene or specific aspect of a car. For people that aren’t very familiar with cars, the further away perspective work shows the big picture and allows for cars to be easier recognized. Whereas the close up work begins to lose its context and become unrecognizable. She also utilizes plain or wood textured backgrounds, from the wood panels she works on, to play with removing the context of the surroundings. Her work as a whole evens the playing field for everyone so that all viewers can enjoy the curiosity and beauty in the design of cars, no matter the knowledge of them.