“I really put myself in the skin of an animal when I paint. It sometimes tears my heart apart. We find them a lot in mythology, the animals. But not necessarily to eat them. We actually idolized them. We represented them a lot. We really lost this, and I’m trying to recreate it through my paintings. They are protected by the Gods. Animals are cosmic beings. They are of all kinds, of all beauty. Th

Elen Ture is a self-taught painter from Anatolia of Western Asia and Turkey. Her commitment to animal liberation and environmental protection is evident in her inspiring artworks. Born in Paris, France, in 1977, Elen graduated from the Atelier des Peintres en Decors (Decorative Painters’ Workshop) in Montmartre and began her successful career as an artist in 2012. “I was a vegetarian when I was ni