Artist Cansu Bulgu has opened Cansu Art, a unique fine art gallery located in Malibu, Calif. The new space held it’s grand opening September 8th, featuring Bulgu’s original, intuitively inspired work, which offers a graceful, insightful look at the human spirit. She welcomes viewers into an intriguing, powerful, gentle journey, an immersive experience in which art, to quote the Hafiz, “offers an opening for the heart.”
Her contemporary fine art is created through meditation with the elements, following her own signature multi-layered creative flow, shaping individual, highly spiritual works. Her calling to the creation of sand art began in 2010 in Kauai, when she says she “touched the sand and the first drawing came.”
Creating both as an artist and spiritual guide, Bulgu shapes emotionally potent and personally aligned work that’s both meditative and ethereal – an enlightening and delightful experience for participants. She calls this experience just “being…drawing just happens and through that, something bigger than both of us smiles on us all.” Bulgu describes her work as a portal to inner wisdom, knowing, heart, center, and self.
In short, what she creates goes beyond the physical into what she calls an experience that “the mind cannot understand, verbalize and explain, but all agree something beyond their imagination happened and it feels wonderful,” she enthuses.
Visitors to the gallery can participate in live intuitive sand drawings in the gallery by appointment, in a blissful sand space Bulgu calls the Space of Stillness, or on the beach itself. She created this space by borrowing sand from the beaches of Malibu, which will be returned to the beach during a special ceremony on the 24th.
“Come in and experience the gallery,” she says. “It is best experienced rather than described, and my work is an invitation.” Through it, she reveals “You’ll find a shift in awareness, and transformation happens effortlessly.”
Bulgu is a true original with compelling work, offering a way for the mind to relax, and for the viewer to “come into their heart, into presence as presence, where all thought disappears and only truth speaks gently in stillness… A gentle shift in perception offers effortless transformation.”
Bulgu’s says that her decision to open her 2100-square-foot gallery presented itself to her – the space’s availability seemed like the perfect spot for visitors to intimately experience her work.
The gallery is located in the Malibu Lumberyard at 3939 Cross Creek Rd #C110 in Malibu. For more information, visit www.cansuart.com
Genie Davis; Photos provided by the artist; photos of artist by Ian Bailey
