“He told me 'I found my mother in the bathtub this morning'. He thought it was an accident, maybe she stepped and she hurt herself,” she said. “She was a good mother, she looked after the boys and everything. She was a bit strict with them, but they are good, nice, polite kids.” Police outside a Brunswick home where a woman's body was found. Credit:Scott McNaughton The 43-year-old was a painter, who won a Clayton Utz Art Award in 2011. She holds a Diploma of Visual Arts and attended school at Preshil in Kew.

Antonia Tatchell's artwork Boy in Holden won the Clayton Utz Art Award in 2011. Homicide detectives confirmed on Thursday afternoon the woman's death was being treated as suspicious. Detective Senior Sergeant Mark Colbert told Channel Nine News Ms Tatchell's body was found by a relative. "It's always traumatic to discover a family member in such circumstances," he said. "We're assisting them as best we can."

A crime scene has been established in a section of the street while homicide detectives and forensic police comb the house. Police outside the home in Albert Street, Brunswick. Credit:Scott McNaughton Durgesh Bhattarai, who lives in a block of units next door to the house where the body was found, said he was shocked by the discovery. "I can't believe it to be honest," he said. "The police came around this morning and said they think she died about 3am, but I didn't hear a thing." Mr Bhattarai has lived in the street for two years and said he had seen Ms Tatchell come and go but she kept mostly to herself.

Antonia Tatchell was found dead in Brunswick. "Sometimes I would hear loud music coming from the house late at night but nothing that would indicate anything was wrong," he said. "It's left us feeling really concerned and worried just to think that something like this can happen right next door to you." Part of Albert Street in Brunswick cordoned off as police investigate a women's death on Thursday morning. Credit:Scott McNaughton Another Albert Street resident, who did not want to be named, said he was leaving for work early Thursday morning when he saw an ambulance, police and people gathered out the front of the house.

"I think it must have been her family because some were crying," he said. "At that stage I didn't know what had happened but knew it must have been bad." The man said he didn't know Ms Tatchell but often saw people coming and going out of the house. A woman, who lives across the road from the house, said she too afraid to sleep in her home after waking up to police cars and emergency services in the street. "I'm going to stay at a friend's place tonight," the woman, who did want to be identified, said.