Katherine Akmulun creates colorful pen and pencil sketches exploring a duality of two facing pages, each with a different scene and, at the same time, empathetic to each other. She is an artist who is not very good with words which is why she draws diptychs in which tells stories, communicates his thoughts and expresses his feelings.
The beautiful artwork created by Akmulun is inspired by everyday life and tells in just two scenes, in a notebook and with a pen, an impressive almost cinematic story. “It’s important to me to demonstrate that you don’t need expensive materials to create beautiful works of art.”
Cinematic scenes in pen and colored pencil sketches by Katherine Akmulun
The narratives Katherine draws into her diptychs are part story and part frame, and contain a number of references to historical imagery that lend themselves to interpretation. «The funny thing is that different people can see different scenes in the same picture and that’s incredibly cool, because we all have different life experiences, different backgrounds and different interests.
The artist travels frequently and is inspired by the details of the everyday experiences he has during his travels, which he also captures using a minimal color palette. His aim is to collect and record feelings in his sketches, even if he doesn’t care much about keeping them intact. “I love tearing out pages, I love realizing that my personal diary pages can travel the world and find their home not just in my notebook. I am pleased that people want to have a piece of my personal world in their home.
Since I was a child, her theatrical fascination with human anatomy and her love of reading inspired her desire to become “a kind of writer, and since I feel insecure with words, the only way out was to keep some kind of personal diary with sketches instead of words. Katherine Akmulun confesses to whom you can know better by entering your own Instagram.
