Something (rather than nothing)
Arts:Visual Arts
Originally from Istanbul, Özlem Sorlu Thompson now paints in the flat where Piet Mondrian made his art studio in Belsize Park. Her influences include the great expressionist artist Kandinsky and the abstract surrealist Joan Miró.
Özlem’s works have already made their way into the homes of renowned celebrities such as actress Anita Dobson and her husband Brian May, musical theatre star Maria Friedman, actor Andy Nyman, and several private collectors.
With degrees in biology and botany, and an in-depth knowledge of exotic plants and a keen interest in physics, Özlem strives in her work to create synaesthesia in the experience, the process and the result, with a visionary energy that generates an extemporaneous flow of strong colours and shapes. Painting without preparation or planning, she merges intellectual concepts with visual ideas, mixing real and imagined organic structures with one another, while dream-like worlds and creatures all converge to create a vivid explosion of the real and fantastic. As a result, positivity and joy invariably manifest strongly in the viewer.
Episode 142 - Madison Marie McIntosh
Episode 141 - Gerald van Scyoc (Part One)
Episode 140 - Haley Robinson
Episode 139 - Greg Petre and Graham Smith
Episode 138 - Susie deVille
Episode 137 - Kimberly Laberge and Cory Fitzsimmons
Episode 136 - Jeff Ostler
Episode 135 - Jonathan Blalock (with guest host Kinneret Ely)
Episode 134 - Calina Lawrence (with guest host Paige Pettibon)
Episode 133 - Sally Mars (with guest host Melissa Oliveri)
Episode 132 - Daryl Parson (with guest host Rachel Lally)
Episode 131 - Spoken Word with Geoff Finan and Greg Clifford
Episode 130 - Jakub Ferencik
Episode 129 - Steph Littlebird
Episode 128 - Ellen Adair
Episode 127 - Nancy Houser-Bluhm
Episode 126 - Matt Hall
Episode 125 - Eleanor Wells
Episode 124 - Matt Brewster
Episode 123 - Caitlynn Abdow Velasquez
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