What Holds
Isobel Rayson
15 May - 20 June 2026

Sustained engagement anchors Isobel Rayson’s practice in time, grounding thought and attention. Through a process-led approach, each work evolves through repetitive gesture, layered mark-making, and accumulation, recording embodied time and care.

What Holds presents a new series of works by Rayson, including cast bronze sculptures, monochromatic drawings, a site-specific wall-based sculpture in paper raffia, and relief wood carvings.

Informed by observations of form, pattern, and texture in the natural world, the exhibition features recurring motifs of grids, nets, and protective forms. These structures establish frameworks within which gesture accumulates, allowing process to guide each work while maintaining a measured sense of order.

Quietly Adrift, 2025

Photo: Dorian Photographics

Selected works

Isobel Rayson

Small Encounters(1), 2026

Relief wood carving

39cm x 12.7cm x 1.9cm.

SOLD

Isobel Rayson

Small Encounters (2), 2026

Relief wood carving

20.9cm x 14.1cm x 1.9cm

SOLD

Isobel Rayson

Small Encounters (3), 2026

Relief wood carving

29.6cm x 10.8cm x 1.9cm

SOLD

Isobel Rayson

Small Encounters (4), 2026

Relief wood carving

15.2cm x 13.5cm x 1.9cm

SOLD

Isobel Rayson

Small Encounters (5), 2026

Relief wood carving

29.5cm x 14.3cm x 1.9cm

SOLD

Isobel Rayson

Small Encounters (6), 2026

Relief wood carving

15cm x 13.4cm x 1.9cm

SOLD

Isobel Rayson

Small Encounters (7), 2026

Relief wood carving

29.7cm x 10.5cm x 1.9cm.

SOLD

Isobel Rayson

Small Encounters (8), 2026

Relief wood carving

39.7cm x 10.7cm x 1.9cm

SOLD

Isobel Rayson

Small Encounters (9), 2026

Relief wood carving

24.4cm x 10.7cm x 1.9cm

SOLD

Isobel Rayson

Small Encounters (10), 2026

Relief wood carving

17.6cm x 12.8cm x 1.9cm

SOLD

Isobel Rayson

Small Encounters (11), 2026

Relief wood carving

35.7cm x 12.6cm x 1.9cm

Isobel Rayson

Small Encounters (12), 2026

Relief wood carving

17.6cm x 12.7cm x 1.9cm


Isobel Rayson

Small Encounters (13), 2026

Relief wood carving

17.6cm x 12.7cm x 1.9cm

SOLD

Isobel Rayson

Small Encounters (14), 2026

Relief wood carving

24.5cm x 11.6cm x 1.9cm

SOLD

Isobel Rayson

Small Encounters (15), 2026

Relief wood carving

15cm x 13.5cm x 1.9cm

SOLD

Isobel Rayson

Tethered, 2025

Pigma Micron pen and black Indian ink on 300gsm Arches watercolour paper

Diptych_91cm x 71.5cm each

Isobel Rayson

Quietly Adrift, 2025

Pigma Micron pen and black Indian ink on 300gsm Arches watercolour paper

Triptych_91cm x 71.5cm each.

Isobel Rayson

Held (4), 2026

Bronze

25cm x 8cm x 6.5cm

Isobel Rayson

Held (5), 2026

Bronze

23cm x 7cm x 9.5cm

Isobel Rayson

Held (6), 2026

Bronze

24.5cm x 6cm x 8.5cm

Isobel Rayson

Held (7), 2026

Bronze

24cm x 6.5cm x 6.5cm

Isobel Rayson

Held (8), 2026

Bronze

24cm x 9.5cm x 11cm

Isobel Rayson

Held (9), 2026

Bronze

26cm x 7.5cm x 8cm

Isobel Rayson

Held (1), 2026

Bronze

24cm x 6.5cm x 7cm

Isobel Rayson

Held (2), 2026

Bronze

25.5cm x 9.5cm x 10cm

SOLD

Isobel Rayson

Held (3), 2026

Bronze

25cm x 6.5cm x 7.5cm

Isobel Rayson

Held (10), 2026

Bronze

30cm x 11.5cm x 11cm

Isobel Rayson

Held (11), 2026

Bronze

31cm x 10cm x 11cm

Isobel Rayson

Anchored (1), 2026

Bronze

16cm x 13.5cm x 8.7cm, edition 1/5

SOLD

Isobel Rayson

Anchored (2), 2026

Bronze

18cm x 15.2cm x 10.7cm, edition 1/5

Isobel Rayson

Anchored (3), 2026

Bronze

13.9cm x 11cm x 6.3cm, edition 1/5

Isobel Rayson

Anchored (4), 2026

Bronze

16cm x 13cm x 8.5cm, edition 1/5

Isobel Rayson

Anchored (2), 2026

Bronze

18.2cm x 15cm x 10.7cm, edition 2/5

Isobel Rayson

Anchored (5), 2026

Bronze

14.5cm x 11.7cm x 6.2cm, edition 1/5

Isobel Rayson

Anchored (1), 2026

Bronze

16.3cm x 13.5cm x 8.7cm, edition 2/5

Isobel Rayson

Anchored (6), 2026

Bronze

14.2cm x 11.7cm x 8.7cm, edition 1/5

Isobel Rayson

Settle, 2026

Relief wood carving

31.8cm x 42.1cm

Isobel Rayson

Linger, 2026

Relief wood carving

32cm x 42.1cm

SOLD

Isobel Rayson

Rest, 2025

Pigma Micron pen and black Indian ink on 300gsm Arches watercolour paper

91cm x 72cm

SOLD

Isobel Rayson

Enclosed, 2025

Pigma Micron pen and black Indian ink on 300gsm Arches watercolour paper

89.5cm x 70.5cm

Isobel Rayson

Suspended (1) 2026

Pigma Micron pen and black Indian ink on 300gsm Arches watercolour paper

91cm x 71.5cm

Isobel Rayson

Suspended (2) 2026

Pigma Micron pen and black Indian ink on 300gsm Arches watercolour paper

91cm x 71.5cm

SOLD

Isobel Rayson

Fade, 2026

Relief wood carving

62.4cm x 52.5cm

SOLD

Isobel Rayson

Veil, 2026

Relief wood carving

62.4cm x 52.4cm

Isobel Rayson

Exhale, 2026

Relief wood carving

42.3cm x 42.3cm

SOLD

Isobel Rayson

Whisper, 2026

Relief wood carving

42.3cm x 42.3cm

Isobel Rayson

Tender, 2026

Relief wood carving

42.3cm x 42.3cm