Award winning Contemporary art gallery in Cranbrook, Kent

Finnish artist Sini Villi creates mesmerising three-dimensional textile artworks from handmade ribbon. Each piece is patiently layered, sewn, and shaped into sculptural reliefs that, once hardened, hold their own unique form. Her visual language is rooted in her childhood landscape of Northern Ostrobothnia, where vast, silent fields and seasonal rhythms shaped her eye. The softly ploughed autumn grooves, the muted one-tone colours of winter, and the return of vibrant life each spring are all echoed in her works. Before dedicating herself fully to textile art, Villi worked widely in fashion and interior textiles after graduating with a Bachelor of Culture and Arts in 2004.

This featured work, Blue Wave II, is part of a collection called Currents. It is inspired by the Kymi river that flows next to an old sawmill a couple of miles from where Sini lives. The collection was made for an exhibition in Stockfors, an old sawmill village in Finland.  It is based on the endless cycle of nature and the way life flows onward despite the surrounding transformations.