Lemon Seed Project: Meet the woman hosting art exhibitions in her Walthamstow home

When you first walk into Natasha Landers’ Walthamstow home, you can feel, before you even see, the art. It’s not staged or sterile. It’s lived in. It breathes. It belongs. And that is entirely the point. Natasha, an interior designer and longtime collector of Black art, has spent years frequenting galleries and exhibitions. But time and time again, something felt off. “I kept thinking, where is the warmth? Where is the connection?” she tells me. Art, she believed, shouldn’t be perched on pristine white walls, severed from reality. It should sit within the rhythms of a home, surrounded by the mess, the memories, the everyday. So, she built the space she wanted to see. Literally.

Her house, a design-led location home she’s lived in for more than two decades, has always centred art. “Although The Lemon Seed Project wasn’t in mind when designing the home, art is central to everything about this house,” she says. And it’s true. Every corner feels intentional, complete, as if each piece of art has quietly been waiting for this exact spot. As Natasha put it, “I choose work by artists I admire. I like for the art in my home to look like it’s always been here.”

And maybe that’s why, as she tells me in her gloriously bright yellow-floored kitchen, she doesn’t see herself as placing art. Rather, “For me, art tells me where it's meant to be." 

Our conversation meanders, the way good conversations do, from the nuances of interior design to the hilarity of modern-day thrift marketing language. We laugh about how a chair can quadruple in value with a single tweak of description. “Used,” “vintage,” and “pre-loved” may all technically mean the same thing, but one of them will absolutely cost you more.

But whimsical interruptions aside, this home has quickly become something bigger than Natasha expected. Last year, she hosted a private viewing. Then an Open House. People were hungry for a space where Black artists weren’t simply displayed, but nourished. Where gallerists, curators, and collectors could talk, connect, imagine, collaborate. Where the art felt alive because everything around it was alive too. That hunger became The Lemon Seed Project.

This isn’t a gallery. It’s not trying to be. It is a home, rooted in a simple idea: Black art deserves a habitat, not just a pedestal. The artists Natasha invites, like painter Ayesha Feisal, legendary hip-hop photographer Tee Max, and now multi-disciplinary artist Lauren Little, whose exhibition opens on 6 December—aren’t just guests. They’re residents to the vision. The Lemon Seed Project is both soft and radical: a reimagining of how we experience, collect, and connect with Black art. It removes the transactional gloss and replaces it with something far more valuable, presence.

As I leave Natasha’s house, Reggie, her dog, escorting me back to the doorway, I realise something: this project isn’t about art in a home. It’s about art that makes a home. And in doing so, Natasha Landers has created something rare, a space rooted in cultural care, aesthetic joy, and community energy. A space that feels, already, like it was always meant to be here.

If you want to keep up with the exhibitions find The Lemon Seed Project on Instagram @lemonseedproject or visit their website to learn more. Just don’t be surprised if, like me, you walk in for the art and leave wondering how your own walls suddenly feel a little underdressed.