Nurdan Kaygisiz

I paint the moment — and the moment just after. A figure turning, a hand mid-gesture, a face caught in the middle of a thought: that is presence. The chair pulled back, the cup still warm, the coat holding the shape of a shoulder, the shoe left mid-step at the door: that is what presence leaves behind.

My work moves between the two — between the person and the trace, between the moment and its aftermath.

Presence and absence are not two subjects. They are the same story, told from either side.

My main body of works are the portraits and figures hold the moment itself.

The companion works hold what the moment leaves when it has passed — the used object, the imprint, the small evidence that someone was here.

Beside the figures, these traces read as their negative: the same feeling with the sign reversed.

That is why they belong together, and why they sit like siblings rather than strangers.

I am self taught watercolor artist. I took online courses from watercolor botanical and natural history painters in 2015. And along the years I have developed my own style. Furthermore I am graduated from architectural technology studies from UCN, Denmark in 2014.