Textured Curves Poster

Textured Curves works entirely in terracotta, building three broad looping forms out of paint that has been combed while wet so every shape carries a grain of fine parallel ridges. Where the ridges run against each other the tone shifts without the colour changing, which is how the picture gets its depth from a single pigment. Underneath, a few faint pencil lines show where the shapes were first set out. Nothing is outlined and nothing is filled flat. The whole thing is one colour and one gesture, repeated until it holds.

Oak could work well here, since it sits in the same warm register as the terracotta. A thin black frame cuts it cleanly if you want more contrast. Above a sofa or a low bench the scale of the forms gives a large wall something to fill it. It pairs nicely with velvet in sand, sheepskin and furniture in solid wood.