{"id":15334,"date":"2021-12-11T14:20:46","date_gmt":"2021-12-11T14:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/me\/?post_type=articles&p=15334"},"modified":"2021-12-11T14:20:46","modified_gmt":"2021-12-11T14:20:46","slug":"contemporary-artist-belmin-pilevneli","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/me\/articles\/contemporary-artist-belmin-pilevneli\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive Interview With Turkish Visual Artist and Illustrator Belmin Pilevneli"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photograph courtesy of Belmin Pilevneli<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Emotional landscapes are dense, undulating, and – above all – abstract. Belmin Pilevneli is able to express hers and help us connect with ours through her artwork. Pilevneli is a Turkish visual artist and illustrator based in London,\u00a0whose work has appeared in places like Soho House Istanbul, the House of Illustration in London, and the Press Museum in Istanbul. With her abstract forms on embossed paper she invites us to reconnect with our inner selves and reflect on the most pressing issues of today. We had the pleasure of sitting down with\u00a0Pilevneli to talk about her creative process, what she hopes to accomplish with her work, and the ideas that underpin her pieces.<\/p>\n

You studied art in college, but when did you first take an interest in the process of making art?<\/b><\/p>\n

It actually happened when I was a child.\u00a0I come\u00a0from a\u00a0family\u00a0of artists, my Mother and my Father are ceramic artists, whilst my Grandfather is a well-known painter in Turkey. So I think I was given\u00a0coloured\u00a0crayons and pencils when I was around\u00a0two and a half\u00a0years old. This was where my interest in the process of making art began.<\/p>\n

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