Theme's Derya's paintings are abstract expressions of singular moments. While she paints in bold and cathartic expressions, she is equally compelled painting soft, nostalgic, and mysterious effects. Derya's pieces focus the audience on a journey that explores emotions of love, joy, sadness, and grief and longing. Art Titles Due to her multi-lingual background, Derya's conceptualization of a moment is strongly influenced by her verbal reasoning and linguistic expressions. For example, while in the English language there is one word for -beautiful-, in Turkish there are six variants. Because...