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Background
& Technique
Sometimes you don't sketch out the course your life will take.
You start with a blank canvas and begin to create. Sometimes it
takes the shape of what you envisioned; other times it veers off
in a different direction. Around the year 2007, Sitki Gulergun
decided that the course his life had taken needed a change. No longer
happy being a renowned textile designer creating designs for the apparel
and home furnishing industries (for companies such as Ralph Lauren),
Sitki made a decision to pursue his lifelong passion full-time:
painting.
A contemporary Impressionist, he
uses bright colors infused with
light, together with a graceful sense of line to create serene
still lifes and landscapes. His subject matter is drawn primarily
from his immediate surroundings in Westchester County, New York
and Cape Cod.
Sitki has developed a personal philosophy that emphasizes
a bright view of life, seeking to fill his life with all that is
pure, clean and filled with light. He rediscovered the art of Monet,
Seurat, Sargent and Hassam and found himself looking more intently
at light and how color's component parts are broken down by light.
Beginning with an undercoat of yellow on each canvas to bring
out the light in all his colors, Sitki uses his skill as a precise
draftsman to paint directly on the canvas. He makes no preparatory
drawings, working instead from his own photographs and adding and
subtracting details to create the basic composition. Building and
layering color and texture, he places each brushstroke and each
fleck of color next to each other to create vibrant tones.
One of Sitki's dimensional works of art was selected
as part of the Katonah Museum Artist Association's juried exhibition
at the Sculpture Barn in New Fairfield, Connecticut and was on
display in the winter of 2008. |
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