Chasing Memories, Calabria – ‘Boundless’

Bircan Tulga Photography 2016  ‘Boundless’ is part of the Chasing Memories series inspired by Calabria.  It has a certain  reassuring warmth of recognition, and takes us to a place that we feel we know, but have not yet consciously visited.

120 x 100cm

oil/mixed media on canvas

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Into the Shade

IF0A1819  Into the Shade is sister to Scottish Trees, and emphasises the twenty years of our absence.   How our parallel lives exist without our knowing.

50.8 x 61cm

oil/mixed media on canvas

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Fresh Autumn

IF0A1815-3  Fresh Autumn – colours the mind and brings new adventures.  Reassuring us of change and promising to never repeat a day.

43 x 33 cm

oil/mixed media on canvas

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Scottish Trees

Scottish TreesScottish Trees  followed a trip to Scotland to visit my fabulous friend from school, whom I hadn’tseen for over twenty years.  Such a special time to be with you and meet your whole family.

The trees are long standing and bring us together after so long.  Felt like I saw you only yesterday!

 

oil/mixed media on canvas

50.8 x 61 cm

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Chasing Memories, Calabria -‘Ocean’

IF0A1824Great memories of the seaside in Falerna.  Mum and I watch the storm across the ocean from our hotel in Gizzeria.

oil/mixed media on canvas

61 x 50.8 cm

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Autumn Rustle

Autumn Sunset Autumn Rustle is the flying freedom of leaves.

46 x 30 x 5.7 cm

oil/mixed media on canvas

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Night Pinks

Night Pinks Night Pinks is the glow of city lights across the water on a night out in Portsmouth.

63 x 43 cm

oil/mixed media on canvas

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Surf

Surf  Surf brings the enigma of the waves, emerging from the space of no-mind.

114  x 48 cm

oil/mixed media on canvas

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Be Still

Be StillBe Still is a place where confusion and muddled thoughts can exist.

 

51 x 51cm

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In Spirit

In SpiritIn Spirit is a soft mixture of clouds as they float and melt into one another.  Their presence is steady though ever changing, representing the impermanence of all conditioned objects and all living beings.  However, there is an everlasting quality which symbolises our spirit after it has experienced human occupancy,  and makes it’s inbound journey back home to the universe.

oil/mixed media on canvas.

92 x 93cm     Available

 

Holiday Dreams

Holiday Dreams Holiday Dreams is part of the Swedish Series 2012.  A blossoming romance led me to Sweden where a beautiful home existed on a magical land by a lake.

This house was surrounded by trees of a vast forest where all types of mushroom and berries grew.

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My World

My worldMy World is also part of the Swedish Series 2012I was smitten with the character of this special place in Upsala, that it inspired a vision of how my own world would be.

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Icicle Tavern

Icicle TavernIcicle Tavern holds the depths of a cold, frosty snowy night.  Icy waves and freezing winds mingle with the darkness.

33 x 43 x 3cm (framed)

Shown here unframed

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Night Snow

Night SnowNight Snow has the fun and magic of winter; driving home to a warm house,  building snowmen or watching the snow fall from your office window.

33 x 43 x 3cm (framed)

Shown here unframed

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Sea of Chocolate

Sea of ChocolateSea of Chocolate was a piece in my degree show at Southampton Solent University in 1999.  It is drenched with the intensity of the power and mystery offered by the ocean through darkness.

It is part of the Bournemouth 1999 series.

183 x 153cm

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Broken

Alizarin CrimsonBroken is filled with emptiness and  confusion. The fleshy colours symbolise an unknown internal inner journey.

39 x 48cm

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Deliberation

DeliberationAlso part of the Bournemouth 1999 series, Deliberation was created for the degree show in 1999.  It holds the middle distance as you look out to sea through the dark surroundings, at the obscure horizon.

183 x 153cm

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