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Based in London🇬🇧& Istanbul🇹🇷
@rca_painting #2027
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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
Universal Fragments: Pulse by Seçil Erel @artcloud Universal Fragments: Pulse
by Seçil Erel @artcloud 
2023
Oil on Canvas
150 × 180 cm
Produced in Studio London
Available in Studio London ✨

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Painted in London during a period of profound personal and collective turbulence, Universal Fragments: Pulse emerged from the tension between fragmentation and continuity.

The title came from my Pilates instructor’s repeated call: “Pulse, pulse, keep going.” At a time when everything around me seemed fractured, it became a physical reminder to continue moving, breathing, and existing.

The work resonates with Merleau-Ponty’s understanding of the lived body: not as an object within the world, but as our embodied way of being in and experiencing it.

From this point, Pulse becomes more than a title. It becomes the painting itself — an embodied rhythm of movement, continuity, and becoming within the universal fragments of existence. ✨

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Londra’da, kişisel ve kolektif olarak yoğun bir kaos döneminde üretilen Universal Fragments: Pulse, parçalanma ile süreklilik arasındaki gerilimden doğdu.

Eserin adı, o dönemdeki Pilates eğitmenimin tekrar tekrar söylediği “Pulse, pulse, keep going” sözlerinden geldi. Etrafımdaki her şey parçalanmış gibi görünürken, bu sözler hareket etmeye, nefes almaya ve var olmaya devam etmenin bedensel bir hatırlatıcısına dönüştü.

Eser, Merleau-Ponty’nin yaşayan beden anlayışıyla kesişir: beden, dünyanın içinde yer alan bir nesne değil, dünyada var olma ve onu deneyimleme biçimimizin kendisidir.

Bu noktadan sonra Pulse yalnızca bir başlık olmaktan çıkar. Evrensel fragmanların içinde hareketin, sürekliliğin ve sürekli oluşun bedenlenmiş ritmi olarak resmin kendisine dönüşür. ✨
Photo by  Deniz Güzel
#SeçilErel #UniversalFragments #Pulse #ContemporaryPainting #RCAPainting
Being A glimpse from the exhibition at @adas.ist . Being
A glimpse from the exhibition at @adas.ist . ✨

Being considers the significance of the present moment—the continuous, transient state of existing, and the weight carried by each moment as it unfolds. As long as we breathe, every instant becomes a site of experience, perception and becoming.
Each painting  Oil on canvas, 180x150cm

Being
@adas.ist ’taki sergiden bir kesit. ✨

Being, şimdi ve burada olmanın; varoluşun sürekli ve geçici hâlinin ve her ânın taşıdığı anlamın izini sürer. Nefes aldığımız müddetçe her an, deneyimin, algının ve dönüşümün gerçekleştiği bir alana dönüşür.

#secilerel #SeçilErel #rcapainting #ContemporaryArt OilOnCanva
Being No. 2, 2024 Oil on Canvas 180 × 150 cm Paint Being No. 2, 2024
Oil on Canvas
180 × 150 cm
Painted in London
Available in Istanbul

From Being, the 12-piece series I created and exhibited at @adasist in 2024.

Being grew out of an ongoing inquiry into the state of being — the relationship between body and mind, movement and stillness, and the experience of being present. Through colour, rhythm, geometry and layers, I explored how an inner state can take form and become a space of its own.

This is No. 2 from the series.

Being No. 2, 2024
Tuval Üzerine Yağlı Boya
180 × 150 cm
Londra’da üretildi
İstanbul’da mevcut

2024 yılında ADAS’ta gerçekleştirdiğim Being sergisinde yer alan, 12 parçadan oluşan özel üretim serinin 2 numaralı parçası.

Being, olma hâline dair ürettiğim bir dizi resimdir. Bir anın, nefesin yeterliliği, beden ve zihin, hareket ve durağanlık ve burada olma hâli arasındaki ilişkiyi; renk, ritim, geometri ve katmanlar aracılığıyla içsel bir hâlin nasıl biçime ve kendine ait bir alana dönüşebileceğini araştırdım.

Seriden 2 numara. #rcapainting #secilerel #oiloncanvas #largescalepainting #abstaractpainting
My studio space at the RCA @rca_painting @royalcol My studio space at the RCA @rca_painting @royalcollegeofart 
is ready. ✨

As I set up this new space at the RCA Painting Building in Battersea, London, I am going deeper into a question at the heart of my practice:

How can a painting hold more than what is visible?

Alongside my active studio spaces in London and Istanbul, I am now creating a third space at RCA — a space to rethink, reimagine and redefine what painting can become.

I cannot wait to see where this question takes me. ✨

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@rca_painting’daki stüdyo alanım hazır. ✨

Londra, Battersea’deki RCA Painting Building’de bu yeni alanı kurarken, pratiğimin merkezindeki bir sorunun daha da derinine gidiyorum:

Bir resim görünenden daha fazlasını nasıl taşıyabilir?

Londra ve İstanbul’daki aktif stüdyo alanlarımın yanında, şimdi RCA’da üçüncü bir alan oluşturuyorum — resmin neye dönüşebileceğini yeniden düşünmek, hayal etmek ve tanımlamak için.

Bu sorunun beni nereye götüreceğini görmek için sabırsızlanıyorum. ✨

#RCAPainting #SeçilErel #SecilErel #LondonStudio #IstanbulStudio
A week at the studio Music by @maxrichtermusic # A week at the studio 
Music by @maxrichtermusic 
#studiolondon #seçilerel #secilerel #rca #rcapainting
Coherence Seçil Erel, 2025 Oil on canvas 180 × 150 Coherence
Seçil Erel, 2025
Oil on canvas
180 × 150 × 3.5 cm

🇬🇧Coherence is not simply where different thoughts, senses and visual elements meet on a single plane, but a space that creates its own environment and draws the viewer into it.
Through the interplay of layers, colours and forms, looking becomes an experience that unfolds within the painting.

🇹🇷Coherence, farklı duygu, düşünce ve görsel unsurların tek bir düzlemde buluşmasından çok, kendi mekânını yaratarak izleyiciyi içine alan bir bütündür.
Katmanlar, renkler ve formlar arasındaki ilişki, bakışı resmin içinde gelişen bir deneyime dönüştürür.

Produced in Studio London
Available at Studio London
Find more information link in bio @artcloud 
#SeçilErel #Coherence #OilOnCanvas #SecilErel  #RCAPainting
A new chapter begins. ✨ After 25 years of profess A new chapter begins. ✨

After 25 years of professional artistic practice, I am starting my second Master’s degree in Painting at the Royal College of Art in London. 💯 @royalcollegeofart @rca_painting 

While continuing to paint, exhibit, and develop international collaborations from my studios in Istanbul and London, I see this new academic journey as an exciting opportunity to renew my practice, develop new perspectives, and keep moving forward.

Throughout this period, with the support of my studio coordinator, @lspence68 Leyla Spencer, we will continue to coordinate the studio and operational side of the practice with the same continuity.

Thank you to everyone who has followed my work, supported me, worked with me, collected my paintings, and been part of this journey over the past 25 years. 🤍

There is an exciting period ahead. ✨

#Secilerel #RoyalCollegeofArt #Painting #StudioPractice LondonArt
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Welcome to my Art Studio and Club's website, which I am operating from both cities, London and Istanbul.
My aim is to use creativity and artistic elements to create a better and beautiful future.
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