Japanese Maple Painting

BERLA (Berrak Ergul Lajoie) is a painter artist and photographer based in Montreal, Canada. She was born and grew up in Turkey, studied architecture and graduated from Istanbul Technical University Faculty of Architecture. She spend several years working as an architect in different countries until she moved to Montreal. ​ Art has always been her passion and she always seeks certain ways to express this passion ever since she was a child. During her professional years, she found a path in architecture that brought her closer to art, however painting was one of her favorite tools to reflect her inner world. She started oil painting when she was 22 years old. Since 2017, she has been working with acrylic medium, sometimes by mixing it with paper, textile, metal or some other materials. She discovered her interest on photography, when she was a student in faculty of architecture. She bought her first camera and enrolled to a photography course at her school. First, she started to take architectural photographs and then she captured many traveling photographs through the years. In 2014, she joined to “National Geographic Yourshot” and some of her photographs were published on their website in 2015 and 2016. She believes that photography and painting have a strong connection and both  feed her imaginary world and help to enrich her visual vocabulary.