Ahsen Kucukcalik ART

PRISON BREAK – A Real Life Story of an Artist

I remember that breathtaking moment as it happened yesterday, when I first stepped into Vatican Chapelle Sixtine and saw the Botticelli, Perugino, Signorelli, Rosselli, Michelangelo frescoes on the walls. It was a magical moment as if I entered somewhere from out of this World . I remember myself   standing in bewilderment, looking at the paintings and the statues without a blink of eye for almost a couple of hours with an admiration, exitement and   deep down a bit of jealousy as a young woman who wanted to study art as being a child always fond of making paintings and drawings but due to universe’s joke  graduated from “Business Administration” and started to work in an insurance company.

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As a young girl who has always enjoyed drawing, painting, and designing since childhood, I wanted to study in an artistic field. However, I graduated from Boğaziçi University with a degree in "Business Administration" and started working at an international insurance company at that time.

Throughout my successful professional career in various positions, even though I performed all my tasks with enthusiasm and love, the feeling of emptiness inside me never faded. The response I gave to the faint, persistent inner voice calling me to paint was always, “Who am I to create such beautiful paintings without even having an art education?” As this creative energy accumulated inside me with no outlet to flow outward, it often left me feeling depressed, unhappy, and lacking self-confidence. Painting became the greatest tool that helped me reconnect with my true self, allowing me to express what I could not put into words, and thus, it set me free.​

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My creation process is now a kind of channelling. I usually start painting with an idea in my mind. But as the painting proceeds, it takes the development as if the painting has its own free will, and along the way  whispers its own desires to my ears or acts directly as it wishes. And I obey this. The outcome at the end is something completely different from the initial though I had in mind. But it is more beautiful than I imagined and it tells me a story. This process transforms, changes and heals something inside me. The main feeling of this story passes to the other viewers and heals something inside them.

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I want to spread this love and compassion and beauty and the healing to the World with my paintings.

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Let the love and compassion rule the world !

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                                                  Ahsen Küçükçalık

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