Before devoting herself fully to art, TURLITU completed a Master’s degree in Landscape Architecture. This background endowed her with a refined sense of spatial emotion, balance, and natural composition. But her true artistic voice emerged from a place beyond academic training—a place shaped by personal experience, resilience, and the quiet understanding that some truths are felt rather than explained.

“I’ve learned that an authentic smile often takes more courage than tears,” she reflects. “And that real joy tends to grow where we least expect it.”

TURLITU’s technique is as layered as her intent. Each piece begins digitally—a marriage of concept and composition. It’s then printed on high-quality canvas. But that’s only the foundation. Using oils, acrylics, and special mediums, she builds up texture and depth by hand, often creating ethereal light effects that feel almost immersive.

“Every brushstroke carries not only color, but emotion,” she says. “Depth comes not just from the paint—but from the story behind it.”

There is a motif that flows throughout her body of work: a woman, smiling gently, submerged in water. What may seem whimsical at first glance holds profound meaning for the artist. As a child, TURLITU lost her brother in a drowning accident. “For a long time, water meant pain, silence, something you can’t breathe in,” she shares. “And yet I paint women smiling beneath it. Maybe it’s my way of healing—of transforming that heaviness into something luminous.”

These women don’t smile because everything is easy. They smile because they’ve been through something—and still choose joy. It’s this resilience that lies at the core of TURLITU’s work: not a pursuit of perfection, but a celebration of truth.

When asked what matters most in the act of creating, TURLITU doesn’t hesitate: “The transformation—when something fragile turns into something luminous.” Her purpose is clear: to make others feel seen, and to remind them of their own light.

This authenticity has not gone unnoticed. In summer 2025, her work will be featured—including the cover—in the renowned architecture and design magazine Baubibel, signaling her arrival on the international art stage.

TURLITU’s art is an offering. It’s an invitation to feel more deeply, smile more often, and trust that even after the storm, light remains.