In the studio with… Eduardo Terrazas

It is unsurprising, looking at the yarn-based works of Eduardo Terrazas (b. 1936), to learn that he trained as an architect, so clean and precise are his geometric designs. This is visible in the work that made his name early in his career: the logo for the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City, which was influenced by a Huichol textile. Since then, he has developed an intricate technique, influenced by the art of the Indigenous Huichol people, for making his distinctive works. Comprising blocks of coloured patterns and shapes formed from yarn woven onto beeswax-coated wooden boards, Terrazas’s works borrow from the folk art traditions of his home country as well as from modernist abstraction. This year Terrazas’s work was featured in ‘Foreigners Everywhere’, the main exhibition at the Venice Biennale, and his show ‘Encounters’ is currently on at Timothy Taylor, London, until 23 August.