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As a creative artist Carmen Turyn is difficult  to classify and within the current cultural climate I would deem this an advantage. She has always produced  paintings  that at first sight would appear to be expressionist in mood, in which colour is used emotively playing an important part in her visual imagery. But the designation of her work as stemming from expressionism would be to use the term in a singularly restrictive way. For the basis of all she does consists of a process of self discovery and frequently of self analysis and a definition of this is always hollow frontiered. But this relentless search for a synthesis between the world of appearances and an interior dialogue  concerning such a world is central to her concerns. For that reason her work seldom appears introverted.

Carmen Turyns works are visionary pictures in which the vision is  reduced as the work progresses. In these works space is squeezed as if it were a fluid substance between solids, themselves organic