Ebru is the ancient Turkish art of painting pigment on water. Each work begins on the surface of a tray — shaped by breath, by touch, by the particular stillness of that moment. When the paper lifts from the water, the image is already complete: fixed in material form, impossible to reproduce exactly, made in the space between hand and water and time.
This practice found me at a time when I needed to learn how to be still. I work in a small studio in Dumfries, Scotland, where the water does not know where it is, and neither, sometimes, do I.
Every piece is made once. Nothing is ever repeated.