The Red Queen “The Red Queen” measuring 120×180 cm, Oil on Canvas. Available to buy. “It takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place.” — Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass This line, spoken by the Red Queen in Lewis Carroll’s chess-structured...

Queen Over Knight “Queen Over Knight” measuring 100×150 cm, Oil on Canvas. Available to buy. There is a difference between movement and power. In Queen Over Knight, Simay Kislaoglu explores quiet authority through the language of chess. A woman stands still, calm, and...

Sancta Potentia “Sancta Potentia” measuring 100×150 cm, Oil on Canvas. Available to buy. Sancta Potentia means holy power a power that is pure. This is not power that fights. Not power that proves. It is power that stays clean. Her face is calm and direct. The halo...

Checkmate “Checkmate” measuring 120×180 cm, Oil on Canvas. Available to buy. Some endings arrive quietly. Checkmate is not a painting about loud victory. It is about the moment when the mind becomes still when the decision is already made, and nothing needs to be...

Apatheia “Apatheia” measuring 100×150 cm, Oil on Canvas. Available to buy. In this work, Simay Kışlaoğlu explores the idea of calm as a form of strength. The figure carries two gazes: one lowered inward, and one meeting the viewer with quiet confidence. The bold...

Snow White “Snow White” measuring 70×120 cm, Oil on Canvas. Available to buy. I named her Snow White because her face carries that soft, pale light that feels both calm and strong at the same time. Her gaze is bewitching not in a loud way, but in the way someone looks...

Cinders and Queens “Cinders and Queens” measuring 150×150 cm, Oil on Canvas. Available to buy. “Where power rises from ashes” connects the work to the phoenix myth, a symbol of rebirth through fire. It speaks about resilience, the strength not only to survive hardship,...