My Story
Ellie Bailey‑Patterson is a Florida based artist originally from the historic, textile‑rich Clyde Valley in Scotland. With roots in generations of weavers, dyers, and domestic makers, her work extends a family lineage of cloth, color, and care. Drawing on sewing, weaving, sculpture, and installation, she explores how textiles — like bodies, landscapes, and memories — age, weather, and hold time.
She adopts a slow and deliberate process, using natural dyes, hand-stitching, and local botanicals to create evocative, tactile abstractions. Her subdued palette and rhythmic markings echo traditional Scottish weaving while remaining responsive to the shifting light and atmosphere of her current surroundings. Inspired by the Japanese concept of natsukashi (joyful nostalgia), her work invites viewers into an intimate space where cloth becomes a vessel for memory, belonging, and the enduring experience of home.
Ellie's latest work focuses on the female form. Each piece begins as a simple slab of paperclay and slowly shifts into deconstructed, almost ephemeral images of the body. Edges blur, forms collapse and reappear, suggesting figures that are present and disappearing at the same time. The surface of the paperclay records every touch, holding faint gestures and impressions that feel both tender and unsettled, like memories that can’t fully stay in place.