🏵️A Story Behind 5 Paintings

What thoughts drive me to create what I create? Read in this post!

What are the tropics supposed to be like? Bright colors, lush greenery, blazing sun. But can tropical nature exist in a different state: delicate, quiet, slightly mysterious? I believe it can.

1. Calm Tropics

oil, acrylics, hand-crocheted cotton lace, collage on paper (25 x 75 cm | 9.8 x 29.5 in), 2026

I love observing and expressing different emotional states of nature. This artwork is about a calm, misty tropical morning filled with the scent of wild grasses. On mornings like these, thinking feels effortless. Nature itself seems to rest from the intensity of color, and you rest together with it.

In my practice, I use textured paper with organic patterns. I create these surfaces using heavily diluted oil paint and water. I make many different textures, then carefully combine them, searching for the exact balance needed to express a particular feeling.

For this piece, I became completely captivated by natural warm ochres and soft grayish tones with a cool undertone. Calm contemplation and stability became the emotional center of the work.

2. Royal Garden

oil, acrylics, hand-crocheted cotton lace, collage on paper (25 x 75 cm | 9.8 x 29.5 in), 2026

I continue exploring the grounding qualities of brown tones and earthy color palettes. For this piece, I worked with three completely different backgrounds, each carrying its own mood and temperature. I kept asking myself: can these contrasting elements become a harmonious composition, even when the process itself feels incredibly difficult? Somehow, yes.

Cool and warm browns, pale ochres, nearly black reddish-brown tones, delicate gray passages, small lemon-colored accents… Bringing all these elements into balance sometimes feels like conducting an orchestra.

What is this work about? Elegance. Sophistication. A sense of antiquity.

It is about carved palaces surrounded by overgrown gardens, about long old pathways lined with stone walls covered in moss. And perhaps, in some distant emotional way, it is also connected to the feeling of a homeland that continues to exist somewhere in memory.

3. Venus Gardens

oil, acrylics, hand-crocheted cotton lace, collage on paper (25 x 75 cm | 9.8 x 29.5 in), 2026

I love reading about space discoveries and imagining impossible worlds. A newly discovered planet within a habitable zone? Wonderful. But what kind of nature could exist there?

This artwork is my fantasy about gardens on Venus. In my imagination, they appear in soft pinks, pale blues, mystical violets, and delicate white lace-like structures. They feel only partially materialized, suspended somewhere between light, atmosphere, and mirage.

These gardens are deeply feminine in their energy and presence.

Sometimes I think my future profession would be “plant designer” — someone creating real living plants with unusual qualities and behaviors. I would truly love that.

In this series, imagined botanical forms become a way of thinking about transformation, fragility, and the possibility of entirely new ecosystems beyond ordinary human experience.

4. Blue Garden

oil, acrylics, hand-crocheted cotton lace, collage on paper (25 x 75 cm | 9.8 x 29.5 in), 2026

I continue imagining impossible plants and speculative botanical forms. What if a flower could exist both underwater and on land at the same time? Blue Garden explores this idea.

These forms exist somewhere between jellyfish, coral structures, aquatic organisms, and terrestrial plants. They belong fully to none of these worlds, yet partially to all of them.

There is another hidden layer within this work. I became fascinated by the idea of showing both the internal and external structure of a plant simultaneously. Lace allows me to do this.

The lace elements, which I crochet using precise mathematical patterns, function almost like the inner skeleton of these imagined organisms: their hidden structure, rhythm, and foundation. At the same time, the lace also becomes the visible outer form. I find this duality deeply compelling, and I continue developing this idea within my practice.

Blue, turquoise, and deep navy tones have always felt symbolic to me. They carry the endlessness of the sea and sky merging together, reminding us that we were born for freedom.

5. Cozy Oasis

oil, acrylics, hand-crocheted cotton lace, collage on paper (25 x 75 cm | 9.8 x 29.5 in), 2026

Warmth. Shelter. A private cocoon filled with comfort and safety. These are the feelings I wanted this work to evoke.

Living in emigration, I often think about the idea of home and belonging. Sometimes I miss the feeling of having a place in the world that is unquestionably yours. Yet over time, I realized something important: I can slowly transform almost any place into home. Wherever I am, home can begin to exist there too.

In this artwork, lace carries a different meaning than in some of my other botanical works. Here, it is less about the internal structure of imagined plants and more about memory, family, and connection between generations.

Delicate lace tablecloths in a grandmother’s home… many of us remember them. I certainly do.

This piece holds that quiet longing: not only for a physical place, but for the feeling of a home one can truly return to.

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