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Welcome
Enter a world where memory becomes atmosphere, where change leaves behind quiet echoes, and where each painting holds what lingers after transformation. These are not just artworks. They are the presence of a voice that learned to speak in colour when language was no longer enough.
ARTIST STATEMENT
Banu Tulumen
I paint the quiet spaces between what can be said and what must be felt.
My work is intuitive, fluid, and layere; built through 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 is wholeness, rebellion, return, and the echo of what continues.
I was born in Istanbul and now live and paint in British Columbia. My return to art was also a return to myself, a woman once silenced, now speaking through colour and movement. When words no longer held what remained, I found my voice in paint.
Each painting is a threshold. Some hold the echoes of loss, others the quiet presence of becoming. Many are elemental — fire, water, air, earth — while others trace memory, atmosphere, and the unseen. There are dragons and moons, forests and fragments, shadows and light. What connects them is a lingering presence, something felt long after it is seen.
I am drawn to what remains after experience changes us — the emotional atmosphere that endures, reshapes, and quietly returns.
I believe that freedom has a shape.
And I paint to find it.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
These are the places where the work has spoken — through walls, light, and silence.
2026 Highlights
• Shape and Form 2026, Federation of Canadian Artists Juried Exhibition — Azure Enigma
• OASIS 2026, Federation of Canadian Artists Juried Exhibition — Seafoam, Bloom
• Abstracted 2026, Federation of Canadian Artists Juried Exhibition — The Signals of Silence
• Federation of Canadian Artists Toronto Chapter — 2026 Open National Juried Exhibition —
The Marsh of Returning Echoes, Midnight Shadows, Ashes, Moons, and Memory
• Intangible Experiences, Propeller Art Gallery/Toronto — Chlorophyll After The Fall
• Women's Voices, Women's Art Association of Canada/Toronto — She Refused to Disappear
• Paranormal, Part Crowd Art Gallery/Toronto — When The Earth Grew An Eye, Dragona Jellyfish
• Art Speaks 2026, Federation of Canadian Artists Juried Exhibition — Lucid Remains
• Upcoming Solo Exhibition, Peachland Art Gallery/September 5-October 4 — The Shape of Freedom
2025 Highlights
• 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
• The Traveller, Part Crowd Art Gallery/Toronto — Istanbul in a Dream, Pathway to the Ethereal City
• Limitless, Federation of Canadian Artists Juried Exhibition — Celestial Impact
• Shape and Form, Federation of Canadian Artists Juried Exhibition — Echoes of Flow and Form
2024 Highlights
• 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
2023 Highlights
• On the Edge, Federation of Canadian Artists Juried Exhibition— Dragona Jellyfish
• Solo Pop-Up Exhibition, Summerland Art Gallery