isura: Treasure of Night

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 Night

I made Treasure of Night with deep coffee-dyed textiles and indigo-patterned Adire layered onto canvas.

 

I often work into the evening in my Manchester studio. At that hour, colour changes. Details that seemed obvious during the day become quieter, while other things begin to emerge.

That stillness unexpectedly brought back memories of my mother's morning routines—the warmth and familiarity of one part of the day returning while I worked inside another.

 

I began questioning my assumption that darkness needed to represent uncertainty. What if darkness could also offer rest?

I became interested in the body at rest: the moment when it is temporarily released from activity, productivity and what is demanded of it.

 

When I returned to the painting, the dark areas did not feel empty. Patterns appeared and disappeared depending on where I looked.

 

Treasure of Night asks what becomes visible when we stay with darkness rather than immediately trying to escape 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.