CUPIDITY Painting

Each painting is an experimental voyage to an unknown destination for me. Mostly I start to paint without any sketches with a clear mind as the canvas I am about to work on. But this unknown painting journey takes so much time that as time goes by I change the painting a lot, my mood changes, my life changes, world around me changes and I remake it over and over and over again till that painting on the canvas becomes a new textured heavy canvas itself and I paint over that previous paintings and this process goes on like this - months sometimes years passes and I finally beat the canvas and finish the painting. But sometimes I loose the fight against the canvas as it becomes ripped by the heavy paint and my force on it by the time. If the canvas is strong enough to survive, usually I win the fight though there are bunch of paintings waiting to be finished for over two years and I don’t know who’s going to win. I capture a broad perspective in my paintings and prints by applying the current graphic design tools and principles i.e. typography, illustration, animation and cartoons in addition to oil, acrylic and collage techniques. I live and work in İstanbul.