selvedge | 2026
Selvedge sits on the shifting boundary between land, water and atmosphere, where forms emerge, dissolve and are continually reshaped. Rooted in my own relationship with the coast, the collection developed through observations of horizon, weather, erosion and changing light. Sand, marble dust and layered acrylic build physical surfaces that echo these processes, allowing landscape to move between recognition and abstraction. Rather than depicting a specific place, they hold its residue: atmosphere, movement and memory. Familiar enough to evoke a landscape once known, yet unresolved enough for that memory to become the viewer's own.
A selvedge is the self-finished edge of woven cloth, the border that holds, the part that will not fray when the rest of it does. A coastline does the same work in reverse: an edge that is never finished. The individual works take their names from the same language. Textile is a worked material; its surface is formed through processes of tension, pressure, repetition and release. The shore is shaped in much the same way, only over a different measure of time. Having trained in textiles before moving into painting, I found the two vocabularies beginning to describe one another. The titles therefore name processes rather than places. What is being named is not where a painting is, but what has happened to it.
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FULLING
Acrylic, marble dust and gel medium on canvas | 70 × 100 cm
WEFT I & II
Acrylic, marble dust and gel medium on canvas | 30 × 80 cm
warp sand I
Acrylic, marble dust and gel medium on canvas | 50 × 70 cm
warp water I
Acrylic, marble dust and gel medium on canvas | 50 × 70 cm
draw
Acrylic, marble dust and gel medium on canvas | 60 × 90 cm
raw edge
Acrylic, marble dust and gel medium on canvas | 60 × 90 cm
ground
Acrylic, marble dust and gel medium on canvas | 60 × 90 cm
title
Acrylic, marble dust and gel medium on canvas | 30 × 40 cm
