Timothy Taylor is pleased to announce the representation of Martha Tuttle in London. This winter, the gallery will present a solo exhibition of new work by the artist, incorporating select materials gathered during a month-long residency in Somerset this past summer. In collaboration with Timothy Taylor, Tuttle will continue to be represented by Peter Blum Gallery in New York.

Interweaving elements of sculpture, textile, and painting, Tuttle creates subtle compositions that reflect on materiality, impermanence, scale, and flux. She uses earthen materials—plant dyes, stone pigments, wool, linen, and silk—to build fractured topographical surfaces that return the language of geometric abstraction to the natural world. The painting I walk along the bottom of a canyon, finding mineral matter and fragments of bones (2025), for example, evokes both the strictures of the grid and the shifting appearance of light on water. Featuring geode fragments and bronze casts of cow bones, this work is characteristic of Tuttle’s material exploration. She often embeds diverse objects—stones, charred wood, cast aluminium—into her compositions.Together, these varied elements create sophisticated and complex dynamics of opacity and transparency, interior and exterior, weight, and tension.

Tuttle engages slow, deliberate processes: grinding her pigments; spinning, weaving, felting, and sewing her textiles. These practices emphasise both the role of the hand and the inherent qualities of her materials. The resulting works possess a tactile intimacy and a quiet, resonant care. Often, Tuttle’s paintings respond to specific landscapes, including those she inhabited as a child growing up in rural New Mexico. “My work is always asking how we, as human beings, can encourage intimacy with the nonhuman world that surrounds us,” she has said. With formal gestures that speak to difference, multiplicity, and balance, Tuttle’s abstractions offer emotional and embodied responses to our environment.