About

☾ ✧ ⟡ ♡ The Artist ♡ ⟡ ✧ ☽

Hello fellow human being! Thank you for your interest in my art! ♡

My name is Gulcin and I am an ex-academician turned ceramicist. I have a very gentle and fragile soul but am also quite resilient and occasionally bitchy when my limits are tested.

Here is how I describe my artistic creation process:

Ceramics is my happy place and a therapy to my soul. I am a kind person who —hence naturally — suffered from anxiety and depression ever since Ive known. In this rollercoaster experience called life, I try and do find peace by converting my feelings and thoughts into 3d forms using clay. 

I picked up sculpting 5 years ago as a hobby and am actively creating artworks for the past 3 years. I very recently quitted my academic post after 15 years of mental torture and burnout, relocated to Netherlands in '24, and switched to being an artist full-time. Its been a wild journey so far to do this all in the same year but Im trying to hang in!.

Being able to express myself and make a living through my art was my childhood dream. So thank you so much for helping my little child self who once dreamed of this, by showing your love and interest to my unique creations.

I currently make ceramic ghosts that convey various human sentiments and thoughts. These spirits represent my own and other fellow humans' souls, that is why I chose to land on ghosts as an art form to deliver messages. I occasionally make cat figurines as well since I have a very deep connection to those magical creatures. I am also planning to have more variation in my portfolio in 2025. So stay tuned!

All of my creations are uniquely designed, sketched, hand-shaped, painted, and fired by me. I create my artworks in my home studio in Netherlands. I am against fast and mass producing my designs; therefore, I do not use any moulds or automated processes while sculpting them. This is why I can only produce in very small batches each month, and generally have only 1 stock of each design in each collection. This is true especially for the sentimental pieces that help me go through a tough mental state. I occasionally repeat the same creations when I feel the need to revisit those feelings or thoughts or when the season is back and let them wash over me once again. 

I put my soul and mind into every piece I create and my exploration in the world is transferred to these ceramic makes with every imprint I make on the clay. I hope we share some common paths in this journey and I can bring a smile to your life with my makes.

Important Note. All of the designs are protected by intellectual property law and copying of no kind will be tolerated. I do not replicate anyone else's work and expect the same from other fellow artists. ©Statement Ghosts

☾ ✧ ⟡ ♡ Media and Materials ♡ ⟡ ✧ ☽

All pieces are very unique and hand-sculpted from scratch using premium quality ceramics clay (stoneware or porcelain). No single item is the same with another. You'll receive the exact art piece photographed as there's only one of it. This is because I do not mass-produce using moulds or slip-casting and do not utilize any outside help. Each work is hand-built, glazed, and fired solely by me. 

Here's a snapshot of how I create and how long it takes:

After I come up with an idea worthy of offering to the world, I sketch and design the details of how to bring it to life. Once the idea is mature, I carefully and slowly carve and sculpt the piece out of the amorph clay or of its wheel-thrown form. After waiting for the sculpture dry out fully for a week, I check for any obvious imperfections and retouch them. Then, I fire it at least once and up to 1250°C. The lower-heat firing schedules helps burn out organics in and vitrify the clay to its final solid state. Higher degrees is where the witchcraft of ceramics happens: The chemicals in the glazes (ceramic-specific paints) start to melt and bond forever with the clay. Each firing takes more than 5 hours of heat-work to be completed using electricity, followed by a wait of 10+ hours for the kiln to cool down to 50-100°C from those remarkably high degrees. So it easily takes almost one day to see a piece back again after I place it in the kiln for firing. A period of true patience, excitement, and anxiety mingled altogether because most of the time you do not exactly know what will come out or may surprisingly go wrong. And this is just another quirkiness of the art of ceramics that makes it wildly beautiful, just like life itself.