Ryke Turin’s artistic practice explores the tension between contemporary textile art and painting. In her woven, object-like paintings, she negotiates the relationship between control and intuition, as well as between craft and fine art.

Most of her works are created on a manual loom. The initially white warp threads are painted with a sponge or dyed using various techniques such as immersion dyeing. In this way, flowing fields of color emerge, gradually building up and dissolving again.

Within this tension between a clear geometric visual language and free, intuitive color transitions, Ryke Turin develops works she describes as “Woven Paintings” — textile paintings that embody both the rhythm of weaving and the gesture of painting. In doing so, the artist succeeds in connecting these two worlds and bringing them into dialogue with one another.