Short Bio
I'm a Turkish born Spain based artist. I studied art in London. I mainly paint watercolours and have been exhibiting in Spain and abroad since 2018.
Statement
What appeals to me most about painting is the exploration and the rediscovery of the form and the colour of everyday objects that we grow accustomed to and often forget to see with fresh eyes under ever-changing light conditions. Realizing their particular arrangements is a seeing game that I enjoy all through the day. Painting for me, at the same time, is a translation process from a mixture of different languages to a visual one of a particular medium. Working with watercolour is working with transparency and fluidity of water. What attracts me most with watercolour is that it is a live media and it has a mind of its own, so, it’s about letting it loose, understanding it, being friends with it, and following it through what it wants to do.
My main subject of interest in watercolour is the landscape. The force behind my inspiration is nature and light. Although most of my watercolours are impressionist in style, I enjoy developing my ideas in a looser style by adding abstract elements.
Biography
Batur Baslar was born in Ankara, Turkey in 1967. After obtaining his music degree from the State Conservatoire of the same city in 1990 he moved to the UK where he studied Fine Arts Mixed Media at the University of Westminster in London, during which he concentrated mainly on two dimensional media: photography, painting and printmaking in particular.
After receiving his BA (hons) in 1997 he moved to Spain. He has concentrated most of his art work on watercolour painting since 2015 and since then he had various solo exhibitions in Spain and participated in numerous national and international exhibitions in countries including Russia, France, Poland, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Colombia, Ukraine, Japan, Slovenia, Australia, Chile and Turkey. He has recently been awarded the first prize in Winsor & Newton Iberia online watercolour competition, "Entre Grises". He was also awarded different prizes in international Kiev Watercolour Miniature competition, Ukraine, in “Golden Brush Watercolour Contest” in Izmir, Turkey and in Santo Domingo Watercolour Festival, Chile. He is representing Spain in Fabriano in Acquarello 2022, Italy.
