Snow Painting

Nusret Orcan is a Turkish artist with a great love of Impressionism. He finds inspiration in music and dancers, interpreting their movement as free-flowing forms across the canvas. There are also sentimental garden scenes, so beloved of the earlier Impressionists. But it is perhaps his rendering of scenes in Turkey that give a special frisson. To see Istanbul in the evening, or its magnificant station building at the water's edge imbued with the soft treatment of light that this style affords, is both an art connoisseur and tourist's delight.