Artist Natalie Chapman grew up feeling stigmatised for living in a council house, receiving free school meals and having a parent who was in and out of rehab.

"You face prejudice from people, people have ideas about people who live in in council houses," she said.

In her most personal project to date, she has…

For several years the family even lived in a barn with no electricity and used candles for light.

"The difficulty is getting seen in the art world if you're not from a sort of better class," said Natalie, from Llannon in Ceredigion.

"My friend calls it 'the gatekeepers', which I think is a good analogy - there's a clique and a group and you have to really try to push past that."

The experience of taking her ailing dad to…

interview for the lovely Podcast “How do you feel today?” with friend, Gareth Dauncey.

Natalie is an artist who paints her life through portraits, creating images about human relationships that are simultaneously tender and dysfunctional. Listen in as Natalie tells me about…

Art for everyone - making art more inclusive and approachable.