I guess it may be because I couldn’t live my childhood like a child, because after my art education was over, I mainly preferred to work with children.
I continued my art career by building on this. Who knows, maybe it was the area where I felt safest, where I took shelter.
Even though I have participated in exhibitions since I graduated, working with children has been my priority. Art is the most accurate means of expression that a child can express without experiencing trauma. In art, you can shape all your feelings and thoughts and rest your soul. When working with kids it’s amazing to be in their world.
I have worked with children and young people as a creative art instructor in different educational institutions for 15 years and I have been giving the ‘Creative Art with Children’ course at Boğaziçi University for 10 years. I started arranging the characters that I had drawn in classes for years with different concepts.
I have always stayed away from doing meaningless works by saying that an artist should tell something to the society with his works and make them think.
You can find my NFTs works here:
https://opensea.io/reyya