Labor
Coincidentally, three pregnant women showed up in my life at the end of the 90’s and I was moved to paint all of them. (Shown is the portrait of an […]
Author Archives: galyatarmu
In the eye of the beholder
All beauty is painful. When you try to squeeze the beauty of nature into a rectangle, you encounter certain problems. How you deal with those problems is painting. Beauty is […]
Vision
Ironically, losing my eyesight has brought a new perception – I see the geometry of painting more clearly than ever before. In the past, it may have been instinctual, but […]
The end of painting
I read recently about a well-known painter who is currently having a major exhibition in New York and what shocked me about the story were the comments – a number […]
In the company of friends
I thought of talking about Matisse this week, but my mind went instead to his teacher, the man who really influenced an entire generation – Gustave Moreau. Moreau was a […]
Painting with intent
There are lots of times when you’re painting that you want to throw in the towel – it’s taking too long, it’s too frustrating, you don’t know what you’re doing. […]
Winter Wedding
It was Oscar Wilde that said something about each man kills the thing he loves – in that case he was talking about remorse, I think. But destroying something you’ve […]
Process
It seems to me that one of the failures of art today is that so many artists need instant gratification. They are in a big hurry to get to the […]
Patterns
Last week, I compared this painting to Manet’s because it is the inverse of his famous ‘Dejeuner sur l’Herbe’ – here, the nude is male while the female is fully […]
Feminism
I never thought about being a feminist because I never felt discriminated against as an artist. Of course, I never worked in aconventional workplace so I didn’t know how women […]
