THIRA 2022

acrylics, nettle/silk weavings

70 X 100cm

Collection of Nobu Santorini, Greece

Thira takes its name from the ancient name of Santorini — a place shaped by volcanic transformation, layered histories, and an architecture that seems carved directly into the caldera itself. In this series, I was drawn not only to the island as a landscape, but to the quiet tension between fragility and permanence that exists within it.

Created as a commissioned body of work for Nobu Santorini, the series began through my observation of the forms of the old Cycladic houses suspended along the cliffs. Their geometry, repetition, and relationship to light became the starting point for an abstract visual language rooted in structure, rhythm, and spatial memory.

Through acrylic painting combined with handwoven textile elements on canvas, I explore surfaces that hold both material weight and softness. The woven textures function as traces — tactile interruptions within the painted field — echoing ideas of construction, erosion, and human presence embedded within the island’s identity.

 Across the 21 works, abstraction becomes a way of translating the emotional and physical experience of the island into fragments of texture, depth, and light. The series was conceived as a cohesive installation, created specifically in dialogue with the environment and architecture of Nobu Santorini.