About
The story of Tirqima
Where the name comes from, and how the work is made.
The name
Where Tirqima comes from
Tirqima takes its name from the Maltese word tirqim: the craft of working thread into cloth, line over line, until a pattern holds together.
It is the closest word for how these pieces are made. Each one is a weave, not of yarn, but of texture and colour.
The work
Two ways of weaving
Tirqima began with a simple question: what happens when a painting is allowed to have depth? Instead of brush on canvas, each piece is built — layered, pressed, carved and poured until the surface catches the light and changes through the day.
Texture. Surfaces are built up by hand: pressed, combed, carved and layered with knives and tools, until ridges catch the light the way thread catches it across cloth.
Colour. In the fluid works, paint is poured and tilted so colours cross, fold and wind through one another, finding their own pattern as they settle.
Many pieces bring the two together: a woven surface, with colour woven through it.
What Tirqima stands for
Three things every piece carries
Made by hand
No prints, no reproductions. Every surface is shaped in the studio, one piece at a time.
Defined by texture
Relief, ridges and pours that invite a second look, and a closer one.
Calm by design
Warm, natural palettes chosen to sit quietly in a home and bring character without noise.
Original fluid and textured art, shaped by hand.