Artist Bio

All About Original Abstracts by Melis Gursel

I was born in Turkey in 1983. Since my early childhood, I have been passionate about art. Although my educational background is in  engineering, art always has been an implacable need to express my deepest thoughts and feelings with an imaginary distortion of space in relation to time  whereby people or objects of one period can be moved to another like a ‘time wrap’. 

Being a multi-cultural, self-taught abstract artist who lived in different countries for years, gained me different viewpoint such as ” sensitivity to one’s own and other cultures” and "semantic awareness".

 I wholeheartedly believe that we do not have much control on what happens in life but with art you can turn a piece of paper, wood or canvas into anything you imagine.

 My inspiration comes from a tiny radar lives in my brain that anything can inspire me for my acrylic, oil painting, watercolor, or chalk pastel art work on different media. Mostly I close my eyes and imagine colors. One of my biggest passion is to give color codes to everyone around me because I strongly believe that soul is dyed with the color of its own thoughts, so keep aiming to form antidote by art!