Ascent, 2026
Painting : collage, book, assemblage, mixed media · 67 x 107 cm 26.4 x 42.1 inch · Ready to hang
$4,068
4 068 $US
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Painting : Unique artwork
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Artwork sold in perfect condition, framed, ready to hang
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collage , book , assemblage , mixed media on wood
Dimensions ( cm • inch )
67 x 107 cm 26.4 x 42.1 inch Height x Width x Depth
Artwork dimensions including frame
70 x 110 cm 27.6 x 43.3 inch
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Description
Ascent is an original mixed media map collage created from vintage maps of the world's peaks, mountains and hills.
The piece is composed from hundreds of individually selected map fragments, ranging from maps over 100 years old through to printed atlases from the 1980s. Each fragment has been bonded onto wood and laser cut into circular forms. Every dot contains a small section of mapped terrain: contour lines, ridges, valleys, summits, place names and fragments of remote high ground.
Brought together within a precise geometric grid, these individual fragments form a larger, vista-like landscape of colour, altitude and movement. The composition begins with rich greens at the base, suggesting valleys, foothills and lower ground, before gradually moving through warmer earth tones, ochres, rusts, stone greys and rocky mountain colours. Towards the top, the palette rises into glacial blues, pale greys and summit whites, evoking snow, ice, sky and the highest peaks.
This gradual movement of colour has taken many months to gather and balance. Each map has been chosen not only for its mountain subject matter, but for its precise tone, texture, age and printed detail, allowing the composition to shift slowly from valley floor to summit. The result is both a map-based archive of high places and an abstracted landscape, built from hundreds of circular fragments.
Ascent explores the movement from valley to peak, the human impulse to climb, and the desire to map, measure and make sense of the land. It brings together mountains, hills and elevated places from across the world into one ordered field, transforming cartographic detail into a quiet meditation on height, effort and elevation.
Original vintage maps bonded onto wood
Laser-cut circular elements
Presentation
Amelia Coward is a British mixed media artist whose practice brings together colour, geometry, cartography and material craft. Trained at Central Saint Martins and the Royal College of Art, her work is rooted in colour theory and informed by her background in woven textiles. She creates 3D geometric compositions from vintage maps, hand-painted wood, vintage book pages & archival printed materials, using repetition, structure and precise assembly to explore colour, place and human connection.
Maps are central to Coward's practice. Her 3,000 sq ft studio houses an archive of over 40,000 original maps collected over 25 years, which she uses as both medium and colour palette. She combines maps dating back more than 100 years with more modern examples, drawn to the way borders shift, place names change and territories are divided through geometric lines, dotted boundaries and political markings. Through cutting and reconstructing cartographic fragments, she explores movement, migration, memory and belonging, as well as humanity's long-standing compulsion to divide, define and claim land.
Coward is particularly drawn to the dot as a form. For her, the circle creates the ultimate focal point, a small window into a specific place. Each individual map dot invites a journey: where is this place? who lives there?, what is their life like? and will she ever go there? The studio can be an expansive but physically containing place, especially within the demands of a labour-intensive practice and life as a female artist with children. Through her maps, Coward travels imaginatively, often researching the remote islands, coastlines and far-flung places she discovers within the fragments she selects.
Colour is equally central to the work. Her compositions explore how colours interact with one another, using carefully balanced relationships to create unity from fragmentation. In this sense, colour becomes a way of bringing divided places, histories and materials into a more united visual world. Rainbow colour is often used symbolically within Coward's work, evoking unity, acceptance and connection in response to themes of fragmentation, division and belonging.
Alongside her map-based works, Coward also creates non-map pieces from hand-painted wood, vintage botanical imagery and other printed ephemera, continuing her exploration of colour interaction, rhythm, repetition and spatial balance. Her works are held in private, corporate and hospitality collections internationally, with placements including Sheraton San Diego Hotel & Marina and Almoosa Specialist Hospital in Saudi Arabia. In 2025 her designs were licensed by British Airways for the Club World amenity kit collection.
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