Ayse McGowan - 2023
Ayse is a self taught artist with a background in Graphic Design. She draws inspiration from a combination of her nostalgic memories of childhood spent by the warm Mediterranean Sea and photographic references of coastal images from all around the world, but mainly from Turkey and UK.
Her seascapes are personal fleeting memories delivered with bold colours, patterns and shapes that create an expressive language of their own. Her energetic brush marks together with her love of thick viscous paint, and runny inks, create a rhythm on the canvas. Parts of her paintings represent reality while other parts blur and melt into distant memories, inviting the viewer to explore the rich and vivid layers.