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©Natascha Maksimovic
©Natascha Maksimovic
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©Natascha Maksimovic

Natascha Maksimovic

  • Wallpaper maker
  • Margate, United Kingdom
  • Rising Star
Natascha Maksimovic Wallpaper maker
©Natascha Maksimovic

The marvellous marbler

  • • Natascha masters the ancient Japanese craft of suminagashi
  • • She creates handprinted wallpapers and art prints
  • • Every piece is unique and not reproducible

Artist Natascha Maksimovic started out as a graphic designer and print maker in Germany, where she worked in advertising. Her love for motion pictures led her to working alongside legendary movie director Ridley Scott, where she spent ten years of her life. It was the birth of her first daughter that brought a need for a new balance in her life, which made her re-discover handcraft. Natascha's first love was hand-printing. The decisive coup de foudre was when she encountered the ancient Japanese art of suminagashi, or paper marbling. It is a process that allows Natascha to relinquish control, to abandon routine, and to wait for the shades and shapes to appear – always new, always different.

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Works

  • ©Natascha Maksimovic
  • ©Natascha Maksimovic
  • ©Natascha Maksimovic
  • ©Natascha Maksimovic
  • ©Natascha Maksimovic
Photo: ©Natascha Maksimovic
Marble Wallpaper 'Winter'

This marble wallpaper is hand printed by way of the traditional Japanese art of suminagashi, meaning ‘floating ink’. It is a white background with marbled patterns of teal greens, dark blue, sienna, mustard yellow and blush pinks.

Photo: ©Natascha Maksimovic
Metamorphosis Kimono

This handcrafted paper kimono and oversized obi are an homage to an ancient ceremonial piece. The kimono was cut from a traditional pattern and was then marbled and tailored. The three-metre long obi was also marbled. The result is an otherworldly, space age reinterpretation of two ancient designs, tethered to the world of nature all the while.

Photo: ©Natascha Maksimovic
Marble Wallpaper 'Klimt in Blue'

This marble wallpaper is hand printed by way of the traditional Japanese art of suminagashi, meaning ‘floating ink’. It is made on a white background with marbled patterns of blues, sienna brown, turquoise, orange and gold.

Photo: ©Natascha Maksimovic
Marble wallpaper off-cut tapestry

This marble tapestry is a celebration of curated wallpaper off-cuts. In order to celebrate these pieces, and reduce production waste, Natascha Maksimovic created these curated Tapestry wall pieces. Similar to a quilt, each one is unique and brings to life these hidden pieces of art that would otherwise have been discarded.

Photo: ©Natascha Maksimovic
Marble Wallpaper Print 'Winter'

This marble wallpaper is hand printed by way of the traditional Japanese art of suminagashi, meaning ‘floating ink’. On a white background, marbled patterns of teal greens, dark blue, sienna, mustard yellow and blush pinks have been transferred.

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