Ilhan Yildirim was born in 1972 in a small mountain village in eastern Anatolia.

Yildirim’s work clearly exhibits that there is no room for imitation in his sense of art. He has always strived for novelty and for creating his own signature and line. Either by his early figurative work or by his late abstract work, he has always been considered as an original artist by art enthusiasts. In the art exhibits and art fairs that he took place, he has frequently received comments from visitors within this direction. During the past four years, with the novel technique he developed, he created his own line of abstract painting and his work has been receiving significant attention from art enthusiasts.

He currently continues his work in his studio located in The Hague. During the past decades he has displayed his work in several national and international art exhibits. Yildirim says that this novel technique he has developed has a great potential and he believes that if he can employ all this potential, he can create significant work.

The artist usually combines oil painting and acrylic in his art work. After reinforcing the canvas with gesso, he applies a layer of acrylic and then he implements his own technique with oil painting. Through multilayer painting, he applies selected shapes and elements with colors to the canvas. He achieves the best color combinations and transitions with this technique. Thanks to this novel technique that he uses, the entire painting displays itself as a living object.

Outstanding features of Yildirim’s paintings are, transition of colors from lighter tones to darker shades, microscale appearance of displayed objects, harmony of color combinations, light, shade and depth. The dominance of yellow, blue, brown, orange, purple and blue can be immediately noticed in his paintings. In his work, these colors appear as the features of displayed objects rather than appearing as the color of the paint used.

The work of the artist frequently appears in two forms. In one form, rods of different sizes either appear as an unordered stationary pile or they appear as if they are dynamically moving from one point to another. In the other form of paintings, thick wooden pillars appear as monuments.

However, all his paintings seem to have the same ‘DNA’. They look like as if they are living organisms, which have all been originated from the same single cell. And this way, artist is immortalizing his work through his creativity and esthetic.