Amy Genser makes the rhythms of the ocean into wall sculpture. Working with rolled mulberry paper, acrylic, copper wire and thermoplastic, she composes elaborate reliefs in which patterns move and converge across swaths of blue and green, evoking swells, currents, reefs and the sea floor.

Her pieces are built up from countless small rolls of paper, layered and fixed onto wood or PVC panels so that the surface rises and falls like water. In “O Captain!”, made in 2025, the paper forms a deep, wave-like field, while “Peacefully Chaotic” and “Coalesce”, both from 2026, push the same technique into denser, more turbulent compositions. “Need”, from 2024, combines mulberry paper with mesh, copper wire and thermoplastic, and “Suspended”, also from 2026, works the material into a quieter, more compact arrangement.

The scale of the practice has grown beyond the studio wall. The Macallan, the Scottish single malt whisky company, commissioned Genser to create a monumental piece titled “Stars Below” for its Carta Nautica Collection, a project that takes the sea as its theme. The work extends her paper-built seascapes to a larger format, keeping the same vocabulary of rolled forms and shifting colour.

Genser’s approach treats paper as a sculptural material rather than a flat support, bending and rolling it until it behaves more like coral or current than collage. The result is a body of work that reads as both abstraction and seascape, with the movement of water translated into a fixed, tactile surface that still seems to be in motion.