About
Candan Işık
Painter · Visual Artist · Istanbul
Focusing on themes of female strength, societal pressure, transformation and individual liberation, Candan Işık has been producing art professionally for around seven years. Working at the intersection of Surrealism, Symbolism and Expressionism, she develops a distinctive visual language of her own through acrylic, oil paint and layered glazing techniques.
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.
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Artistic Practice
Directions, techniques and the themes around which the works revolve.
Artistic Orientations
- Surrealism
- Symbolism
- Expressionism
Techniques
- Acrylic paint
- Oil paint
- Glazing and layered paint techniques
Key Themes
- Female strength and identity
- Societal pressure and liberation
- Transformation and rebirth
- Inner strength and symbolic expression
Collection
Metamorphosis
On transformation, female strength and inner rebirth.
See the works in the portfolioExhibitions
5exhibitions
- February 2026Group exhibition
- BirsanatcomParticipation in exhibitions
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