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@rca_painting #2027
ℹ️ email: secil@secilerel.com

For me, art and life are inseparable. Time passes For me, art and life are inseparable. Time passes in the blink of an eye, and within that fleeting moment, so many conversations take place — sometimes filled with art, sometimes expressed in just a few words.

In recent years, distances have changed and time has moved differently. But what remains are some truly beautiful moments.

I will always remember that wonderful day in the early months of 2025, spent and paint together in my Istanbul studio with Prof Dr Süleyman Saim Tekcan, his family, and our dear friends.

You will always hold a special place in my heart, Süleyman Saim Tekcan @suleymansaim_tekcan . Rest in peace. 🤍

Benim için sanat ve hayat bir bütün. Göz açıp kapayıncaya kadar geçip giden zamanın içinde bazen sanatla dolu, bazen birkaç söze sığan nice diyaloglar…

Son yıllarda mesafeler değişti, zaman başka türlü aktı. Ama geriye şahane, güzel anlar kaldı.

2025’in ilk aylarında, İstanbul’daki atölyemde Süleyman Saim Tekcan, ailesi ve yakın dostlarımızla birlikte geçirdiğimiz o güzel günü hep hatırlayacağım.

Yerin ayrı, Süleyman Saim Tekcan. Huzurla… 🤍 
#süleymansaimtekcan #imoga  @imogamuseum #restinpeace
✨ REIMAGINING | October Newsletter (Türkçesi için ✨ REIMAGINING | October Newsletter
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A new season, new perspectives, and new possibilities. 🍂

As a new season unfolds, I find myself reflecting on change, the ideas we carry with us, and how looking at things from different perspectives can reveal new meanings.

In this month’s newsletter, I share reflections, creative explorations, and what’s coming next.

Inside this issue:
🍂 Reimagining
🌀 Space for Reimagining
💭 Rethinking
🎨 My Works on Artcloud
🎄 Christmas & New Year Gifting
🚶 London Art Walk — 24 October

📖 Discover the October newsletter and join me in reimagining what’s possible.

#Reimagining #OctoberNewsletter #RCAPainting #LondonArtWalk #ChristmasGifting 

✨ Yeniden Hayal Etmek | Ekim Ayı Bülteni
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Yeni bir sezon, yeni bakış açıları ve yeni olasılıklar. 🍂

Yeni bir sezon başlarken kendimi değişim, beraberimizde taşıdığımız fikirler ve farklı bakış açılarının nasıl yeni anlamlar ortaya çıkarabileceği üzerine düşünürken buluyorum.

Bu ayki bültende düşüncelerimi, yaratıcı keşiflerimi ve yakında gerçekleşecek etkinlikleri paylaşıyorum.

Bu sayıda:
🍂 Yeniden Hayal Etmek
🌀 Yeniden Hayal Etmek İçin Bir Alan
💭 Yeniden Düşünmek
🎨 Artcloud’daki İşlerim
🎄 Noel ve Yeni Yıl Hediyeleri
🚶 London Art Walk — 24 Ekim

📖 Ekim ayı bültenini keşfedin ve mümkün olanı birlikte yeniden hayal edelim.

#Reimagining #OctoberNewsletter #RCAPainting #LondonArtWalk #ChristmasGifting 

✨ REIMAGINING | October Newsletter
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A new season, new perspectives, and new possibilities. 🍂

As a new season unfolds, I find myself reflecting on change, the ideas we carry with us, and how looking at things from different perspectives can reveal new meanings.

In this month’s newsletter, I share reflections, creative explorations, and what’s coming next.

Inside this issue:
🍂 Reimagining
🌀 Space for Reimagining
💭 Rethinking
🎨 My Works on Artcloud
🎄 Christmas & New Year Gifting
🚶 London Art Walk — 24 October

📖 Discover the October newsletter and join me in reimagining what’s possible.

#Reimagining #OctoberNewsletter #RCAPainting #LondonArtWalk #ChristmasGifting 

✨ REIMAGINING | October Newsletter
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Another week at the studio #seçilerel #secilerel # Another week at the studio #seçilerel #secilerel #rcapainting #rca #londonartists @rca_painting
AS IS, 2026 @rca_painting Türkçe için kaydırın → AS IS, 2026
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An ongoing process of transformation unfolds both within the world we perceive and beyond what we can see. Through art, I seek to make traces of this continuous change visible, celebrating the beauty of impermanence and the potential for renewal.

Part of my Reimagining series, As Is emerged organically in my studio at the Royal College of Art @royalcollegeofart in Battersea. Bringing together cardboard, masking tape and oil paint, the work transforms an existing surface into a new composition. By reworking materials already at hand, it explores how things can continue to exist in new forms, embracing impermanence as part of a more sustainable creative practice.

#AsIs #Reimagining #RCApainting #SeçilErel #SustainableArt

AS IS — Olduğu gibi, 2026
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Algıladığımız dünyanın içinde ve göremediğimizin ötesinde, sürekli bir dönüşüm yaşanıyor. Sanat aracılığıyla bu kesintisiz değişimin izlerini görünür kılmayı; geçiciliğin güzelliğini ve yeniden dönüşme potansiyelini kutlamayı amaçlıyorum.

Reimagining serimin bir parçası olan As Is, Royal College of Art’ın Battersea’deki stüdyomda kendiliğinden ortaya çıktı. Karton, maskeleme bandı ve yağlı boyadan oluşan bu çalışma, mevcut bir yüzeyi yeni bir kompozisyona dönüştürüyor. Eldeki malzemeleri yeniden ele alarak, var olanın başka biçimlerde varlığını sürdürme olasılıklarını araştırıyor; geçiciliği daha sürdürülebilir bir üretim pratiğinin parçası olarak benimsiyor.

#AsIs #Reimagining #RCApainting #SeçilErel #SürdürülebilirSanat @waxpoetic @arto_tuncboyaciyan
My paintings are sitting somewhere in between exis My paintings are sitting somewhere in between existence and nothingness. And that space between represents the depth of the layers.

I think of space itself as another layer — an infinite metaphysical field that opens within the mind of the viewer. It is not fixed or predetermined; it may not even exist until it is imagined, perceived, or experienced by each individual. In this sense, the layers do not only exist on the surface of the painting; they continue beyond it, opening into an infinite space within the mind.

This is why I believe my works should not be considered simply as paintings, but as spaces that allow each viewer to construct their own experience.

Bird’s Eye View: Territory ✦ 2026
Oil on canvas
120 × 100 cm
Produced at the studio, @rca_painting @royalcollegeofart Battersea Campus

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Resimlerim varoluş ile hiçlik arasında bir yerde duruyor. Ve bu ikisi arasındaki alan, katmanların derinliğini temsil ediyor.

Mekânın kendisini başka bir katman olarak düşünüyorum — izleyicinin zihninde açılan sonsuz, metafizik bir alan. Bu alan sabit ya da önceden belirlenmiş değil; hatta her birey tarafından hayal edilmeden, algılanmadan ya da deneyimlenmeden önce hiç var olmayabilir. Bu anlamda katmanlar yalnızca resmin yüzeyinde var olmuyor; yüzeyin ötesine geçerek zihnin içinde sonsuz bir alana açılıyor.

Bu nedenle işlerimin yalnızca resim olarak değerlendirilmemesi gerektiğine inanıyorum; onları, her izleyicinin kendi deneyimini kurmasına olanak veren alanlar olarak görüyorum.

Bird’s Eye View: Territory ✦ 2026
Tuval üzerine yağlı boya
120 × 100 cm @rca_painting 
@royalcollegeofart , Battersea stüdyosunda üretildi ve @wardsimon_ ile fotoğraflandı. 

#SeçilErel #RCAPainting #TheExcludedMiddle #OilOnCanvas #secilerel
Here we go! Another week at the studio. Creating, Here we go! Another week at the studio. 
Creating, painting, thinking, reading, writing, connecting. 
@rca_painting 
Universal Fragments: Feels Like Home
2026
Oil on canvas
170 × 200 cm
Produced at the studio, Royal College of Art, Battersea Campus

#UniversalFragments #FeelsLikeHome #Seçilerel #RoyalCollegeOfArt
Universal Fragments: Feels Like Home ✦ (Türkçesi Universal Fragments: Feels Like Home ✦

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Amid the constant movement of contemporary life, the feeling of belonging remains one of our deepest human needs.

Feels Like Home is not about home as a physical structure, but about the relationships between people and the spaces they inhabit, shape and share. At its centre is the relationship between a person and a space — forming a new connection with a place and gradually creating a sense of one’s own within it. Space is not simply a background; it becomes an integral part of the relationship.

Belonging is a subject I have been questioning throughout my career. Being part of a new community with my cohort at the @rca_painting Royal College of Art, Battersea, invited me to look at this question again — through my own experience, and through observing and connecting with others navigating similar movements, transitions and questions of belonging. What has long been personal becomes collective: not only self, but us.

This is also the first painting I made in this new space. Through colour, layers, textures and abstract thinking, I began to transform the studio into a space of memory and atmosphere — allowing the painting to become a place where belonging could emerge.

Rumi’s words, “I’m at home wherever I am,” stayed with me throughout the process.

Feels Like Home, part of my Universal Fragments series, reflects on belonging, territory, movement, memory, and the invisible places we carry with us. ◌

Universal Fragments: Feels Like Home
2026
Oil on canvas
170 × 200 cm
Produced at the studio, Royal College of Art, Battersea Campus
@royalcollegeofart 
Thank you @wardsimon_ for 📸
#UniversalFragments #FeelsLikeHome #Seçilerel #RoyalCollegeOfArt #rcapainting

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Evrensel Fragmanlar: Evde Gibi Hissetmek ✦

İçinde bulunduğumuz dönemin sürekli hareketi içinde, aidiyet hissi hepimizin en derin insani ihtiyaçlarından biri olarak varlığını sürdürüyor.

Evde Gibi Hissetmek, evi yalnızca fiziksel bir yapı olarak değil; insanların yaşadığı, şekillendirdiği ve paylaştığı mekânlarla kurduğu ilişkiler üzerinden ele alıyor. Çalışmanın merkezinde, bir insanın yeni bir mekânla bağ kurması ve
A week can be so full that, by the end of it, you A week can be so full that, by the end of it, you somehow feel like you’ve done nothing. 💯

Then you look back and think — wait, how did all of this happen in just one week?

Does this happen to you too? 👀

Maybe that is what making looks like sometimes. ✨

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Bir hafta o kadar dolu geçiyor ki, haftanın son günü geldiğinde sanki hiçbir şey yapmamışım gibi hissediyorum. 💯

Sonra bir dönüp bakıyorum: Bir dakika… Bütün bunlar bir haftada mı oldu?

Size de oluyor mu? 👀

Belki üretmek biraz da böyle bir şeydir. ✨ @rca_painting #secilerel #seçilerel #rcapainting #londonbasedartist #turkishbritishartist
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