Cenk Akaltun

Born in 27/09/1970 in Istanbul.
After the high school (hotel management) I studied screen printing and graphic design in Istanbul, Turkey. But throughout my academic studies, I was preoccupied with drawing and painting.

I continued my studies at London's Central Saint Martins Art And Design and Camberwell College Of Visual Arts, exploring various mediums and subjects.

I was particularly fascinated with the idea and the philosophy behind birth and creation in art and religion: Water has been played a serious role since the days of creation. Life itself evolves around the water. With these ideas in mind, I began my "creations in water" series: These creations has been constructed by organic forms which have their own independent, intense life. The whole painting is a spiritual organism that, like every material organism, consist of many individual parts. Like the work of nature. The individual parts have life only by virtue of the whole, and the purpose of their being is to cause a vibration in the soul. Otherwise work of art cannot come into being.

Cenk Akaltun