isura: Treasure of Light

Year:                 2026

Materials:        Adire and Coffee-dyed textile on canvas

Dimension:     107 x 107 cm (42 x 42 in)

Status:             Available

Unique Original / One of a kind

Includes a signed Certificate of Authenticity

About the ișura: Treasure of Light

I began with pale coffee-stained fabric, home-dyed canvas and fragments of Adire, placing some pieces beside one another and allowing others to overlap. As the surface developed, the lighter areas seemed to push through the heavier ones.

 

I was making the work during quiet early mornings in my Manchester studio, when light changes slowly and the room begins to reveal itself. I repeated circles across the different fabrics: some remained clear, while others were interrupted or partly covered.

 

The more I worked, the less interested I became in making light simply mean hope. I wanted to know what light could actually do inside the painting. Could something emerge without erasing what surrounds it? Could a surface feel luminous precisely because darkness remains nearby?

 

Treasure of Light became less about representing light and more about searching for it.

Material / Process

Coffee is used here as a staining material rather than simply as an image or reference. I work the coffee-dyed textile together with Adire through cutting, layering and bonding onto canvas. The process allows colour, stain, pattern and surface to build the work physically, while tea and coffee enter the work in different ways: one through remembered ritual, the other also as material.

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Print Edition

Limited-edition canvas print, unstretched, in a series of 20 copies.

Dimensions: 20(W) x 20(H) inches

Canvas

Price: £195

Unstretched canvas, shipped. securely in a tube.

Custom print sizes are available as well

The total edition consists of 20 printed pieces.