Candan Işık

Candan Işık is a surrealist painter whose visual arts practice is based in Istanbul. Bringing together mixed media, texture paste and layers of oil paint on canvas, she blends a Gothic aesthetic with mystical symbolism. The artist focuses on themes of social norms, existence, conflicts of identity and spiritual awakening. The cold, porcelain-skinned, unshakeable figures that frequently appear in her work represent the human being’s transformation between fragility and inner strength. Offering her original works for sale through Saatchi Art, Candan continues to translate onto her large-scale canvases the story of the human soul shedding its skin between its dark and luminous extremes.