For twenty years the dominant visual language was smooth: flat colour, clean edges, surfaces that betrayed no effort. That language has run out. What collectors and designers are reaching for in 2026 is the opposite â the ridge, the crack, the torn edge, the pooled glaze. Evidence that a hand was here, and that it took time.
Texture is the argument
This collection removes the subject entirely. There is no scene, no object, no story â only matter, brought so close that it becomes landscape. Oxblood oil pushed into ridges by a knife. A teal glaze cracked in the kiln with gold running into the fissures. Velvet in merlot where light pools and dies across the pile. Torn plum paper with emerald underneath.
Each is lit from the side, deliberately, so that every ridge casts its own shadow. That is the whole method: raking light turns surface into relief, and relief is what the eye reads as real.
Jewel colour, and why it returned
The palette is not incidental. Merlot, oxblood, plum, deep teal and emerald came back into interiors alongside warm metals and dark wood â part of a wider turn away from minimalism toward depth, weight and ornament. These are colours that behave differently by daylight and by lamplight, which is precisely why they suit rooms that are used in the evening.
The collection
Eight material studies. Oxblood ridges. Gold in the fissures of a cracked glaze. Merlot pile. Torn to emerald. The bloom of patina on tarnished bronze leaf. Indigo and cochineal in dense wool. Emerald enamel caught still pouring. And charred wood grain with gold in the black fissures.
Living with it
Abstract material work is the most forgiving art there is to place â it carries no narrative to clash with a room â and the most demanding to light. Give these pieces a wall that receives light from one side rather than head-on; frontal light flattens the relief and throws away half of what they are. They pair naturally with dark wood, brass, unpolished stone and deep upholstery. Hung large, a single one of them will set the temperature of an entire room.