Aysen Abaci

Aysen Abaci was born in Istanbul, Turkey and moved to Canada in 1988.  She has an engineering degree in Electronics and has done graduate work in Digital Telecommunications.  While working in the Telecom Industry, Aysen has always kept her ties with art and worked and created with various materials and mediums such as fiber, glass, metals, beads, and of course watercolour, acrylic and quache paint.
She has taken classes in watercolour and acrylic painting but she is mainly a self-taught artist,  whose work has its roots in abstract expressionist traditions and recently has been influenced by “field colour” and “paint pouring” techniques to create works that are airy and dream like and yet are uniquely hers.  In her paintings, shapes and lines appear to morph in and out of focus, colours shift like seasons and subtle imagery imitates flow of water.
Aysen works intuitively, with no preconceived notions, no sketches or forethoughts which provides her the freedom she craves in art and all other aspects of life.  She is keen on reflecting calm and activity, opacity and luminosity, wind and water, as changing scenery of the seasons.  She has a spiritual connection with nature and works to abstract from nature through implying rather than imitating, and is mostly interested in trying to capture and reflect light, colour and even sounds in nature around her .
Her works have contributed to fundraising events for community TV, Earthquake relief and Turkish studies faculty of U of T.

 

Contact
aysen.abaci@gmail.com