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I'm Elcin Marasli Ball, a Turkish contemporary artist based in Leiden, the Netherlands. Working primarily in oil on canvas, I create figurative paintings that combine distortion, theatricality, and psychological tension to resist immediate reading and invite viewers to share a feeling of uncertainty.

Figurative oil painting by Elcin Marasli Ball with overlapping hands and dark blue forms in compressed pictorial space.

Soft Support Structure, 90 x 90 cm, oil on canvas

Oil painting by Elcin Marasli Ball depicting an oversized ear partially obscured by enlarged cotton swabs in a dark, green-glazed pictorial space.

Kulağakaçan | Self Portrait, 90 x 90 cm, oil on canvas

Surreal oil painting by Elcin Marasli Ball, Crime and punishment, featuring a small girl smelling a black leather shoe, while another shoe is comes flying into the scene, all contrasted with the ghost of a giant rubber duck.

Crime and Punishment | Suç ve Ceza, 100 x 100 cm, oil on canvas

Surreal oil painting by Elcin Marasli Ball, Crime and Punishment, featuring a man sitting in the dark next to a big red lamp, ambiguously asking how much emotion one could carry.

Mise-en-scène | Mizansen, 110 x 110 cm, acrylic on canvas

Turkish contemporary artist based in Leiden. Elcin Marasli Ball’s paintings distort light and perspective to explore the theatrical nature of emotion.

Girl and Lemon | Kız ve Limon, 110 x 110 cm, oil on canvas

Surreal oil painting by Elcin Marasli Ball, Unease, featuring gloved hands and a lemon. A visual study of calm surfaces, mirrored gestures, and restrained emotion.

Unease | Telaşlarım şekil değiştirir, 160 x 80 cm, oil on canvas

Large-scale oil painting by Elcin Marasli Ball titled 'A very expensive illusion', featuring a fragmented face in cadmium rose color palette inspired after a Wagner opera.

A Very Expensive Illusion, 100 x 100 cm, oil on canvas

Dark surrealist oil painting by Elcin Marasli Ball titled 'Conversation', featuring two large hands almost choking an absurdly stretched face and eye, while missing a mouth to speak with.

Conversation, 70 x 110 cm, oil on canvas

Surreal figurative painting by Elcin Marasli Ball titled 'Boys and Hands', featuring warped faces of boys and hands, dissolving into perspectival space, inspired after Caravaggio's 'Boy bitten by a lizard'.

Boys and Hands | Oğlanlar ve Eller, 90 x 140 cm, oil on canvas

Surreal portrait painting by Elcin Marasli Ball titled 'Theatre of Teeth', featuring a close-up image of distorted teeth folding into perspective to form a ladder in to the distance.

Theatre of Teeth, 75 x 75 cm, oil and acrylic on canvas

Surreal portrait painting by Elcin Marasli Ball titled 'Artichoke

Artichoke, 60 x 50 cm, oil and acrylic on canvas

Large scale surreal figurative painting by Elcin Marasli Ball titled 'Make No Mistake'; featuring a face, hands, and feet, with an abstract geometric background.

Make No Mistake | Hiç şüphesiz, 160 x 200 cm, oil, acrylic and spray paint on canvas

3-panel large-scale figurative mural painting by Elcin Marasli Ball titled 'Homeless-ness', inspired after homeless people in Chicago.

3-panel large-scale figurative mural painting by Elcin Marasli Ball titled 'Homeless-ness', inspired after homeless people in Chicago. Panel 2 of 3.

3-panel large-scale figurative mural painting by Elcin Marasli Ball titled 'Homeless-ness', inspired after homeless people in Chicago. Panel 3 of 3.

Homeless-ness | Evsizlik, 225 x 115 cm, acrylic on canvas

4-panel large-scale gouache painting by Elcin Marasli Ball titled 'Interrogation', featuring faces melting into a deep perspectival hole.

Interrogation | Sorgu, 120 x 160 cm, gouache and acrylic on canvas

An early surreal painting by Elcin Marasli Ball titled

Donkey, oil and acrylic on canvas, 140 x 90 cm