Aylin Sankur

Who is Aylin Sankur (1977-Izmir)

The artist, born in 1977 in Izmir, started her education in the Painting-Sculpture department at On Dokuz Mayıs University in 1994 and completed it in 1998. She started working as an art teacher the same year. While continuing to teach visual arts, she continues her art studies in her own studio in Izmir. In addition to her oil and acrylic paintings, she has worked in the fields of storybooks, murals, and illustrations. She also gave cartoon drawing lessons to young people around the country with her online cartoon workshop during the pandemic period. The artist has taken part in many national and international mixed and solo exhibitions. Her works are in important collections.

Art Perspective:
I discovered my interest in art at a very young age. I loved observing my surroundings and nature, and I would take photos of everything that caught my attention in my memory and try to paint them, and turn them into small sculptures with the kneading materials I had. When I prepared for the talent exam and started receiving my art education, I started working on humans and human psychology and creating works in a figurative style, mostly in patterns. Although these works sometimes take on cubic forms, they mostly left figurative impressionist flavors. In recent years, I have focused on works that are a little mythological and a little fairytale, telling the unique bond between nature and humans, which I have defined as the only place I have felt like myself since my childhood, and that make one feel that one becomes lonelier as one moves away from nature. While I bring my figurative line to the forefront again, I try to convey the peace I find in autumn and earth colors to the viewers, and while making them feel the peace, I also try to make them question our nature, which we have lost as a result of concreting.

Positions are usually placed in my paintings in a way that supports the expression, and I definitely give them the poetic meanings they deserve. Because in the end, each individual experiences their own poetry. Everyone infects each other with poetry.