sanki
Mixed media on A4 artists paper
2025
Available individually or as a collection
see artist for details
sketchbook
I. Installation of black and white drawings on paper
Originally commissioned by Spreehalle, Berlin, date.
II. A5 sketchbooks
ink, pencil and markers on acid free paper
A5 sketchbooks
CUSTOM comissions
Large scale works on canvas, paper and video art made to order
or smaller drawings on paper
Growing up, I spent more time drawing than doing anything else. Sometimes up to 8 hours a day! In my early childhood I won numerous national and international prices. In the late 80s I studies Fine Arts and Architecture at Mimar Sinan University in Istanbul. Until my graduation my paintings were about showing how realistically I could reproduce things regardless of my very limited sight ~10%. ,
Somewhere along the way, I became a musician with international success and a ton of output, but never lost my passion for visual arts.
My vision decreased and got distorted in the last 15 years, it became challenging for me to even keep drawing and painting at all. I went through painful struggles to find how I can make visual art through some serious unlearning and then by allowing my body to remember what it studied for many years. Form and structure I developed in my music combined with the foundation of my training in architecture started to surface in my free form sketches. I explore speed, volume, density and texture in my drawings in a similar way I do in music. These two practices are not necessarily translations of one to the other but rather two interwoven simultaneous processes that cross feed each other.