"Experimenting with new materials is the key to the 'Eyes' paintings, inspired by the blue glass eyes sold in Turkish markets to ward off evil. These playful, bold images are built from blue acrylic on a smooth layer of white glue and show the artist in a more ironic mood. Dense and clean, these paintings indicate a move towards a simpler line and reduced palette."

Arts Critic Cherry Smyth

Through these new paintings I am no longer telling my story but expressing my feelings from the center of a special culture where I have grown and in which I would continue to live. When asked: Where are you from? I always feel like saying I am the product of the global world. My cultural heritage and upbringing has formed me and will always be an important part of my life. Born in Turkey from Kurdish parents, brought up in Denmark, educated in Europe, traveled extensively throughout my lifetime and now reside in London for over 10 years. My foundation is based around all the countries and cultures I have encountered in my lifetime.

The pendant against the Evil Eye has always been part of my life, hanging in homes, shops, and cars; they are offered and used as jewelry for both adults and children, especially new born.

The glass is the natural material of the transparency. This transparency is difficult to work in paintings. It is even rejected. I am thinking of Art teachers who insist that the paintings of their pupils will be completely covered. Though the white of the painting reveals better the transparency of the glue with which I coat my paintings.

These new paintings mark an evolution of my work, which changes and transforms like everything that lives on this planet, including me. This transparency that I try to express in my paintings is also a new manner of repeating that there is nothing to ‘understand’ in my paintings: I just want to offer energy. This energy has to be the only one to speak and to make sense. That’s why I don’t sign my name on front of the paintings.

I like the abstract. It collects the spirit beyond the image. The confusion that I find in the paintings helps me to focus on what really matters rather than to stop on what the artist would like me to look at.

After all, we are all abstractions which last until the moment when we decide to clarify ourselves in front of our own eyes and in the glance of those who surrounds us.