Each painting is built from layers of oil, pigment and thread. Hard lines and soft curves, depth and transparency, held in an evolving tension that asks to be met as both a visual and a tactile experience. Gravity and viscosity are collaborators here; the thread records what the hand released.

The same attention to systems that runs through everything Ritu builds is handed here to thread, oil and gravity: abstraction moved off the screen and into matter, where it can be touched.

The making of an Organic Movement painting

Step inside the studio as a new painting arrives through the twine. The film holds not only the method but the meditation behind it.

The thread painting process

Thread, not brush

Twine or thread, soaked in oil paint, replaces the brush. Each stroke is pulled, twisted and guided across the canvas, leaving flowing, multidimensional trails.

Radical authenticity

In an over-AI’d and digitally manipulated world, making with the hand remains a radical act of authenticity. The method mirrors nature’s own design systems.

Embracing the unpredictable

Where brushwork imposes control, Organic Movement lets it go. Colours bleed, overlap and merge in ways no plan could hold.

String Theory: selected works

From the solo exhibition at Jarrow & Goodman, Los Angeles, 2025. About the show →

“For Ritu, thread painting is more than technique. It is philosophy.”

All 56 paintings

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From the Journal

Organic Movement has a sibling practice, Abstract Inquiry. See the two bodies of work side by side.

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