I’ve kept an image in my studio for years: ivy growing across a rough, weathered concrete wall. I continue returning to it as a quiet metaphor for persistence — an often unnoticed moment where nature softens and interrupts the built environment.
The cyclical rhythms of growth and season stand in contrast to the slower time scale of architecture and infrastructure, marked here through textured concrete surfaces and traces of wear.
These newest works in the ELEMENTAL series explore urban minimalism through restrained palettes, subtle reflectance, and layered texture. Tone-on-tone compositions allow concrete itself to become expressive, while embossed text introduces another dimension of the built world: information, signals, and quiet messages of resilience drawn from nature.
Words like flourish, thrive, and resilient emerge slowly through close viewing, rewarding attention rather than demanding it.
Designed for contemporary interiors, the pieces function as calm architectural elements — understated from a distance, but increasingly tactile and dimensional up close.
ELEMENTAL 1.8 glass inlay + concrete | 20” x 20” c Heather Hancock 2026
ELEMENTAL 1.9 glass inlay + concrete | 20” x 20” c Heather Hancock 2026
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ELEMENTAL 1.8 glass inlay + concrete | 20” x 20” c Heather Hancock 2026