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 122 - Heather Dean
Episode 121 - Kola Shippentower-Thompson
Episode 120 - Ivizia Dakini
Episode 119 - Loren Rhoads
Episode 118 - Hana Walker Brown
Episode 117 - Caustic Casanova
Episode 116 - Olivia Dolphin
Episode 115 - Aunia Kahn
Episode 114 - Liz Medina
Episode 113 - Joyce A. Miller
Episode 112 - Anika Orrock
Episode 111 - Laryssa Birdseye
Episode 110 - The Music Episode
Episode 109 - Ricardo Levins Morales
Episode 108 - Emily Coupe
Episode 107 - What If Comic Book Geeks Took Over an Episode of SRTN? Starring Martin Michaud-Couch, Sean Wynn, Ethan Slayton and Ken Volante
Episode 106 - Gabe Valentin
Episode 105 - Kristina King
Episode 104 - Frances McKee
Episode 103 - Betty Jaeger (Dame Peaches von Killingsworth/Baroque Betty)
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