Halime Turkyilmaz
Take a journey through Halime Türkyılmaz’s impressionistic approach, the relationship between nature and the rhythm of life expressed through colors, her unique painting style, and her originality in sand paintings.
“Time is a river that covers me from one end to the other, but that river is also me. Time is the tiger that destroys me, but that tiger is also me. Time is the fire that consumes me, but that fire is also me. I am Halime, the village without water! I am the time spent in the vineyard, I am the sunflowers! I am the harvesters, I am the grape pickers, I am the tea pickers! Those sharp-tipped brushes are also me, and the flawless colors are also me! The branch extending from the Tree of Life is also me, and the life-giving water is also me! The red tree is also me, and the autumn tree is also me! Unfortunately, the world is real; how beautiful it is in life! And how strange, I am also here and there!”
A voice… A thousand delicate voices… Maybe you are in a dream… Maybe a night time… The ticking of an old clock… Tick tock… Tick tock… Tick tock… The painter is working on the tree of life, be quiet…
To nature, to a tree, to that bird’s wing, to the tea garden beyond or to the sunflowers… With this painter, with what our imagination awakens in us, we can now give a new place in our hearts. Without forgetting that the places we can go will carry the traces of those old stories… You can imagine yourself on the wings of one of those birds that never leave us again. A new time of flight… What do you see? Of course, there are different answers to this question. You are what you see. This is your flight. These wings are yours too. These eyes are yours too… Time that is being rebuilt… What stories did these words and these feelings come from?
Since the painter has already seen this red, has been walking around the tea fields, and has already talked about journeys, how can we escape seeing that tower of the city that has been left to us as a legacy, and as a legacy of many stories? A deer in the field is calling us in his paintings. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, who traveled to eternity in the grace of the sand, is now calling us. Perhaps nature has long lost many of its languages in these cities. Nature can still wait for us at any moment for a date we will never forget. For the memory of those who continue to live in the darkness of the past and who still make their traces felt for this reason… For different legacies… For those who swing on the trees of life, perhaps. Is it for this reason that in a painting, it seems to us as if it is hidden behind what is written in some memories? Because of the embarrassment caused by past events? I am here, but… When we come a little closer, we understand that it will never disappear, that this tree of life cannot hide behind the winds of time, but…
We understand the nature of this person of color. Now I will write to you about an image hunter, a color sipahi, an image hunter. I am talking about the painter Halime Türkyılmaz.
Who is This Color Master?
Halime Türkyılmaz, “Çay Tarlası”; 2023
We have said this much, let’s move on. Halime Türkyılmaz is an academic painter. She graduated from Anadolu University, Faculty of Education, Department of Fine Arts Education, Department of Painting Teaching in 2009, which she started in 2005. She started painting with a technique she developed with unpainted natural mineral stones in 2008. After teaching visual arts for many years, she gave training and opened sand painting exhibitions at the Kumhane Workshop she opened in Moda, Istanbul. She organized sand painting workshops a few times a month to teach the technique at the Kumhane. The artist, who moved into a new style with her work at the Yalçın Gökçebağ workshop in 2019-2020, continues her master's program at Yeditepe University and her work in her workshop in Nişantaşı, Istanbul. She opened the "100th Year Special Atatürk Exhibition" with Sand Painting Technique at the Atakent Culture Center on May 19, 2019. She has produced special works for the group exhibition titled “Loving Cemal Süreya” at Moda Galeri Mod Art Gallery and for group exhibitions such as “100 Artists 100 Portraits Exhibition on the 100th Anniversary of the Road to Liberation” at both Cennet Cultural Center and Bakırköy Culture and Art Mansion-Muhsin Kut Art Gallery.
Halime Türkyılmaz’s Profile
Halime Türkyılmaz, “The Tree of Life Series”; 2023
In short, painting is a work of form. This profession of form is the explanations of the elders. Its source is the advice and experiences of people with colorful appearances. There are even natural signs, shapes, and narrations from the natural and predecessors that point to these issues.
Halime Türkyılmaz, who is one of the painters who does this most properly, is, to put it briefly, a special painter. The Red Trees series, the Tea Collectors series, the Sunflower Fields series, and the Blue Trees series have achieved a very harmonic order. Colour harmony is matched with stylistic consistency. In Türkyılmaz’s paintings, forms are arranged in a harmonious order. In his works, these figures, created by bringing the basic areas of existence closer to the surface, create a planar effect. Türkyılmaz acts like a miniaturist here and has a style that can be expressed as a reflection of a rational interest established with nature, far beyond the concerns a miniaturist pursues when handling a miniature.
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