The face behind L’El Icy Portraits
I draw slowly, sometimes with long pauses – because silence belongs to my process.
My portraits are not made to please.
They are made to listen.
This website is not about explanations.
It is a gallery – a place where faces, emotions, and hidden traces come together.
With L’El Icy Portraits, I try to capture what escapes words:
a shadow between light,
an emotion that hides,
a memory that refuses to be forgotten.
Every line I draw is also a path back to myself.
That is why my art feels fragile and strong at once.
For me, portraits are more than representation.
They are questions hidden in a gaze.
They are silence that still speaks.
Sometimes they are a mirror.
Sometimes a wound.
Sometimes the beginning of healing.
Art, for me, is both memory and resistance.
It is the place where the unseen can take form –
and where we might recognize
something of ourselves again.
Elif Ayaz
The face behind L’El Icy Portraits
I draw slowly, sometimes with long pauses – because silence belongs to my process.
My portraits are not made to please.
They are made to listen.
This website is not about explanations.
It is a gallery – a place where faces, emotions, and hidden traces come together.
With L’El Icy Portraits, I try to capture what escapes words:
a shadow between light,
an emotion that hides,
a memory that refuses to be forgotten.
Every line I draw is also a path back to myself.
That is why my art feels fragile and strong at once.
For me, portraits are more than representation.
They are questions hidden in a gaze.
They are silence that still speaks.
Sometimes they are a mirror.
Sometimes a wound.
Sometimes the beginning of healing.
Art, for me, is both memory and resistance.
It is the place where the unseen can take form –
and where we might recognize
something of ourselves again.
Elif Ayaz
The face behind L’El Icy Portraits
I draw slowly, sometimes with long pauses – because silence belongs to my process.
My portraits are not made to please.
They are made to listen.
This website is not about explanations.
It is a gallery – a place where faces, emotions, and hidden traces come together.
With L’El Icy Portraits, I try to capture what escapes words:
a shadow between light,
an emotion that hides,
a memory that refuses to be forgotten.
Every line I draw is also a path back to myself.
That is why my art feels fragile and strong at once.
For me, portraits are more than representation.
They are questions hidden in a gaze.
They are silence that still speaks.
Sometimes they are a mirror.
Sometimes a wound.
Sometimes the beginning of healing.
Art, for me, is both memory and resistance.
It is the place where the unseen can take form –
and where we might recognize
something of ourselves again.
Elif Ayaz
The face behind L’El Icy Portraits
I draw slowly, sometimes with long pauses –
because silence belongs to my process.
My portraits are not made to please.
They are made to listen.
This website is not about explanations. It is a gallery –
a place where faces, emotions, and hidden traces come together.
With L’El Icy Portraits, I try to capture what escapes words:
a shadow between light,
an emotion that hides,
a memory that refuses to be forgotten.
Every line I draw is also a path back to myself.
That is why my art feels fragile and strong at once.
For me, portraits are more than representation.
They are questions hidden in a gaze.
They are silence that still speaks.
Sometimes they are a mirror.
Sometimes a wound.
Sometimes the beginning of healing.
Art, for me, is both memory and resistance.
It is the place where the unseen can take form –
and where we might recognize
something of ourselves again.
Elif Ayaz
The face behind L’El Icy Portraits
I draw slowly, sometimes with long pauses – because silence belongs to my process.
My portraits are not made to please.
They are made to listen.
This website is not about explanations.
It is a gallery – a place where faces, emotions, and hidden traces come together.
With L’El Icy Portraits, I try to capture what escapes words:
a shadow between light,
an emotion that hides,
a memory that refuses to be forgotten.
Every line I draw is also a path back to myself.
That is why my art feels fragile and strong at once.
For me, portraits are more than representation.
They are questions hidden in a gaze.
They are silence that still speaks.
Sometimes they are a mirror.
Sometimes a wound.
Sometimes the beginning of healing.
Art, for me, is both memory and resistance.
It is the place where the unseen can take form –
and where we might recognize
something of ourselves again.
Elif Ayaz
The face behind L’El Icy Portraits
I draw slowly, sometimes with long pauses –
because silence belongs to my process.
My portraits are not made to please.
They are made to listen.
This website is not about explanations. It is a gallery –
a place where faces, emotions, and hidden traces come together.
With L’El Icy Portraits, I try to capture what escapes words:
a shadow between light,
an emotion that hides,
a memory that refuses to be forgotten.
Every line I draw is also a path back to myself.
That is why my art feels fragile and strong at once.
For me, portraits are more than representation.
They are questions hidden in a gaze.
They are silence that still speaks.
Sometimes they are a mirror.
Sometimes a wound.
Sometimes the beginning of healing.
Art, for me, is both memory and resistance.
It is the place where the unseen can take form –
and where we might recognize
something of ourselves again.
Elif Ayaz