Olga de Amaral at Lisson Gallery

 Golden textiles, woven and painted (not dyed) -

How does she do it? Gesso and gold leaf are involved - this is the front of one piece -

... and this is the back -

Some of the work is massive - most of it is large -

Sometimes threads (linen) are woven around sticks -

Sometimes strips that have been woven are woven yet again -

Fascinating, intriguing, clever, beautiful. And how lovely to be among these works, that golden glow...

Olga de Amaral (b.1932) is a Colombian textile artist who, the gallery says, "spins base matter into fields of color and weaves tectonic lines through space, unselfconsciously testing the borders between crafted object and the work of art". She traveled widely in the 1950s and 60s, studying textiles at Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1952 and teaching at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in the 1960s. She represented Colombia at the 1986 Venice Biennale. She is married to an artist whose works appear incidentally in the two films that are shown.

The show runs till 29 October.