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Enter a world where silence carries weight, where the edge becomes a beginning, and where each painting whispers of freedom reclaimed. These are not just artworks. They are echoes of a woman who learned to speak in colour when words no longer served her.
Title: Where Freedom Rests
Medium: Acrylics on canvas
Year: 2025
Size: 10" x 60"
“THERE IS A HUSH AT THE EDGE OF TRANSFORMATION. A HORIZON WHERE THE SELF NO LONGER STRIVES, BUT SIMPLY RESTS.”
The closing piece of my series The Shape of Freedom: Whispers from the Edge.
Title: Cardinal Directions
Medium: Acrylics on canvas
Year: 2023
Size: 24" x 24"
"LOST IN THE COMPASS OF IMAGINATION, WHERE EVERY DIRECTION LEADS TO DISCOVERY."
Title: Moonlit Cove
Medium: Mixed media on canvas
Year: 2025
Size: 30" x 30"
"IN THE HUSH OF NIGHT, WHERE WATER MIRRORS SKY, THE COVE BECOMES A KEEPER OF SECRETS ONLY THE MOON DARES TO WHISPER."
Title: Spectral Bloom
Medium: Mixed media on canvas
Year: 2025
Size: 24" x 24"
“EVEN IN THE SILENCE OF SHADOWS, BLOOM APPEAR, GHOSTLY, LUMINOUS, AND REFUSING TO VANISH.”
Title: Red Mangrove
Medium: Acrylics on canvas
Year: 2024
Size: 26" x 18" oval
"ROOTED IN RESILIENCE, THE RED MANGROVE STANDS AS NATURE'S BRIDGE BETWEEN EARTH AND WATER, STRENGTH AND SERENITY."
Title: The Primeval Cipher
Medium: Mixed media on canvas
Year: 2025
Size: 24" x 30"
"BEFORE WORDS, THERE WERE NUMBERS, THERE WAS RHYTHM. BEFORE MEMORY, A PULSE.
NUMBERS DRIFT ACROSS A GREEN TERRAIN, LIKE SPORES OF AN ANCIENT TRUTH.
ZERO RESTS IN RED. ∞ WHISPERS.
NOT TO BE SOLVED, ONLY FELT."
Title: Chimeric Sanguine Veil
Medium: Acrylics & acrylic inks & household paint & crackle paste & texture paste & resin on canvas
Year: 2025
Size: 48" x 24"
"THROUGH THE CHIMERIC VEIL, ECHOES OF RED WHISPER OF WORLDS UNSEEN— SHIFTING, DISSOLVING, AND REBORN IN ENDLESS REVERIE."
Title: Skyline in Motion
Medium: Acrylics & heavy textured acrylics & household paint on canvas
Year: 2024
Size: 59" x 39.3"
"SKYLINES IN MOTION:
WHERE STEEL AND STONE BLUR INTO STREAMS OF LIGHT, CAPTURING THE CITY'S RESTLESS SOUL IN THE DANCE BETWEEN STILLNESS AND SPEED."
I was born in Istanbul and now live and paint in British Columbia.
I rediscovered my creative voice not through words, but through silence — and eventually, through paint.
These works are whispers of that journey: from containment to becoming, from grief to breath, from erasure to colour.
I paint in round forms, portals, thresholds. My canvases are shaped like the freedom I once thought impossible.
I am Banu Tulumen. This is how I speak now.
Acrylics on canvas, 2024
"LOOK BEYOND THE SURFACE - THERE IN THE QUIET CHAOS AND ORANGE HUES, YOU WILL FIND THE MAP TO MY SOUL."
I paint the quiet spaces between what can be said and what must be felt.
My work is intuitive, fluid, and layered — made with acrylics, resin, texture, and a deep trust in process. I often paint on round canvases, choosing shapes that defy corners and refuse confinement. For me, the circle is more than a form — it’s a symbol of wholeness, rebellion, and return.
I was born in Istanbul and now live and paint in British Columbia. My journey back to art was also a journey back to myself — a woman once silenced, now speaking through colour and movement. When words no longer served me, I found my voice in paint.
Each painting is a threshold. Some carry the echoes of loss, others the pulse of becoming. Many are elemental — fire, water, air, earth — while others trace memory, silence, or the unseen. There are dragons and moons, forests and fragments, shadows and light. What connects them is a sense of whispering presence — something felt more than explained.
I believe that freedom has a shape. And I paint to find it.
• Heart, Mind, Love, Propeller Art Gallery/Toronto — Lovers' Lattice
• Misneach: We Need This Now, Propeller Art Gallery/Toronto — Ashes, Moons, and Memory
• Galaxy, Part Crowd Art Gallery/Toronto — Milky Way, Stellar Incandescence
• Interconnecting Lines, MEAM/Barcelona, Spain — Silent Horizon
• Women in Art Biennale/London, UK — Silent Horizon
• Art Vancouver International Art Fair
• Mixed Media, Part Crowd Art Gallery/Toronto — Celestial Impact
• On the Edge, Federation of Canadian Artists Juried Exhibition — Flabbergasted, Midnight Shadows
• Experimental Intervention, Propeller Art Gallery/Toronto — Celestial Impact
• Continuity: Modern to Contemporary Masters, Artifacts Projects Gallery/New York — Flabbergasted
• On the Edge, Federation of Canadian Artists Juried Exhibition— Dragona Jellyfish
• Solo Pop-Up Exhibition, Summerland Art Gallery
Banu Tulumen
Turkish-born Canadian artist based in British Columbia
🎓 BA Interior Decoration – Brussels
🎨 Abstract painter using fluid acrylics, resin & round canvases
🌀 Themes: memory, silence, mythology, feminine presence
🌎 Languages: Turkish, English, French
Memberships & Leadership
• President, Penticton District & Community Arts Council
• Board Member, Penticton Art Gallery
• Former VP, Summerland Community Arts Council
• Member of FCA, FCA-CO, FCA-SOS
• Member of Women's Art Association of Canada
• Paul Harris Fellow, Rotarian for 20+ years
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