Belmin Pilevneli is a Turkish visual artist and illustrator based in London. Through her abstract paintings and prints, Belmin explores emotional landscapes. She encourages viewers to remember the pure feelings they once felt as children, welcoming glimpses of love, jealousy, sadness, happiness, and anger, so often dismissed in contemporary life. Using colour to prompt an emotional response, her undulating works, densely packed with rippling forms on embossed paper, invite viewers to explore a full, colourful spectrum of emotion.
Born in 1990, Belmin studied Visual Arts and Visual Communication Design at Sabancı University, Turkey. She also has an MA in Illustration and Visual Media from UAL, London College of Communication. Before starting her studies in London, she worked as a graphic designer and illustrator in Istanbul, her hometown. The artist inherits her passion for creation from her family; her parents are both ceramists, and her grandfather is a well-known painter in Turkey. Carrying forth the artistic flame, Belmin continues to hone her talent, inviting us to reconnect with our inner selves and reflect on today's most pressing issues.