Nebahat Şakar

Who is Nebahat Şakar? (1974-İskenderun)

The artist, who was born in 1974 in Hatay/İskenderun, started her education at Hatay/İskenderun Sadık Altıncan Primary School, continued at Namık Kemal Middle School and İskenderun High School, and then graduated from Hatay Mustafa Kemal University, Faculty of Education, Department of Painting in 1997. She started her teaching career in 1998 and continues as a Visual Arts teacher at İzmir Bayraklı Halit Özpirinç Anatolian High School. The artist continues her art life in her private studio in İzmir.
She is a member of the Aegean Region Visual Arts Association. She has participated in various exhibitions organized by the association and also in countless national and international mixed exhibitions, workshops and art fairs.
She actively takes part in studies and projects in the field of Special Education. She is receiving Art Therapy training at a private university. Her works are in national and international private collections and various museums.

Art Perspective:
I have started my painting journey with watercolor portraits and continue with textured surfaces on canvas, sometimes with mixed media, and sometimes with different technical experiments. The female image, where the feeling of sadness comes to the forefront in my works, stands out. Elements from nature accompany my figures from time to time: birds, bird nests, leaves, branches. Although sadness is perceived as the exact opposite of happiness in psychology, in my mind, it is the most beautiful of emotions, the most beautiful dress we wear.
The sad states of people, especially women, touch my heart. All the emotions I want to convey gain meaning in expressions. Although sadness is a human emotion, I think it suits women the most. Sadness is our own reality. It is the voice of the language, culture, music, and past within us, the things we have experienced or could not experience.
Our longings, our losses, our joys; in short, everything that is human is our inner voice itself. There is a deep, poetic meaning in sadness. In fact, sadness is to cleanse ourselves, to reinterpret our lives.