Tag: symbolic painting

Aysun Şentürk creates paintings that move between abstraction and storytelling, using symbols, mythology, and organic forms to explore deeply personal emotional landscapes. Working intuitively, she builds compositions filled with trees, birds, figures, and recurring symbolic elements that feel both dreamlike and psychologically charged. Her earlier abstract collages gradually evolved into narrative imagery, allowing instinct and symbolism to merge into a visual language uniquely her own. Influenced by mythology and inner reflection, her paintings often question themes of transformation, entanglement, freedom, and emotional connection without offering fixed answers. Deep greens, teals, and…

While reviewing submissions for our virtual exhibition Birds, hosted on Women in Arts Network, Severine Pineaux’s work stopped us mid-scroll and not for the reasons you’d expect. Her paintings didn’t give us beautiful birds in realistic detail or poetic interpretations of flight. They gave us something far more unsettling: trees with human faces, animals merged with mechanical parts, beings that existed in multiple states at once. At first glance, you might think you’re looking at fantasy. But the longer you stay with her work, the more you realize she’s not painting…

Selected for our Birds virtual exhibition, Jennifer Holmes’ work stood out for its softness and restraint. Through flowers, animals, and light, she builds visual narratives that value stillness, mystery, and emotional depth over spectacle.