Artist Statement

Sustained engagement through repetitive processes anchors Isobel Rayson’s practice. Each work evolves through repetitive gesture, layered mark-making, and accumulation, recording embodied time and care.

Working across sculpture, drawing, and assemblage, Rayson’s practice centres on wall-based relief wood carvings, alongside monochromatic works on paper, cast bronze, and constructed forms in wood and paper.

Informed by close observation of the natural world, her work draws on forms, structures, patterns, and textures. Recurring motifs of grids, nets, and protective forms establish frameworks within which gesture accumulates.