About me
“Every time you make a choice that expresses respect for life, you bring a little more love in your body, into your family, into our society, and into a world that is calling out for this blessing.”
I am a French-Turkish visual artist concern by the holistic and environmental question and more generally passionate by all aspect of life.
I grew up in Paris, France.
While still a student in History of Art, I started to teach drawing and painting at the Ateliers du Carrousel du Louvre. I then taught at such other public and private institutions among which the most famous were the Musée du Louvre, the Musée Carnavalet and the Petit Palais.
In 2008, after I newly settled in Istanbul, I gave plastic art lessons to children and adults at the Sabanci Museum. Then I set up my own drawing and painting studio in the picturesque district of Arnavutköy.
I have been exhibited in İstanbul since 2004 notably at Murat Plevneli’s Fine Arts Gallery, Istanbul, at the Çagla Cabaoglu Art Gallery, Istanbul, and at the Contemporary Istanbul Art Fair to pick the most famous ones.
More recently I have been exhibited at some trendy place as Lucca and Ceremony, in Bebek, Istanbul.
Since 2020, I have settled my own art studio in the peninsula of Bodrum and begin instructing visual art workshops at Amanruya Resort Bodrum (https://www.aman.com/resorts/amanruya) and at Six Senses Kaplankaya (https://www.sixsenses.com/en/resorts/kaplankaya) in the south of Turkey and I performed some art therapy sessions workshops at The LifeCo Holistic Health & Wellbeing Center Bodrum (https://www.thelifeco.com/en/).
Regarding the holistic question, my journey begin with an attraction for the Chinese practice of Tai Chi Chuan, Qi Gong and meditation in 1987. In 2006, I went with my Master Zhang Ayjun at the Mont Wudang in the Henan province of China for improving my skills. In 2017, I start to add Yoga to my practice and begin to be passionate about the whole understanding that it bring in life.
My awakening for the environmental problems as been always in me. But it took a serious and interesting turning when I decided to be Vegan in 2014. After a conversation with a friend of mine, I decide to change my diet and to subside exclusively on a plant based diet which just not only give me more energy and a new start but make me also more concern on my relation with all other beings and more generally for life in general.
I pass a certification on nutrition in 2016 with the Cornell University (USA). I must say that I have embrace this lifestyle with such enthusiasm and excitement that my curiosity push me to experience all aspect of it and to understand it deeply.
Interestingly we are used to think that nutrition is more an health concern, it was so for me at the beginning but the implication on our environment is so big that my diet become today more an act of environmental engagement.
With time I feel more and more the urgency that as individuals and as members of this society we need to care more about the others, about animals, about our environment, about Life in general. We need to think our life’s as a part of a bigger entity than our individual’s one. We have to think as a whole to survive and to thrive. That’s what Passionat me and what motivate me. I am engaged in an holistic lifestyle and want to bring more in this life than consumption and profit. I want to share the enjoyment of life by putting creativity, consciousness and spirituality in the center of our existences.