Yalıboyu No:18 

By Göknil Gümüş Sungurtekin
Oil on Canvas
Size: 130 W x 162.5 H x 3 D cm

                     

Yalıboyu Street is a nice street near the Bosphorus between the district of Cengelkoy and Beylerbeyi in the city of Istanbul in Turkey. The artist was born in a outbuilding with garden on this street in this neighborhood waterside. The artist lived in the house number:18 as a small member of a family of 5 until the age of 12. In this series, where the artist painting about memories and moments, she expressives intuitive and imaginary learning of her childhood. She also remembers establishing connections with her own self while drawing pictures of the connection she established with the garden while she was growing up and played games in the garden. And she wanted to express how she felt to her own in the room she slept her childhood and the view of this room she sees through window and in the background of the spaces with colors. She feels that her real home is this garden of her childhood.