I paint what I cannot put into words — building emotion layer by layer until it finds its form.
Hadees Kordbacheh Özbilen (b. 1991, Iran) is an architect and contemporary abstract artist whose work is rooted in emotion, memory, and structure. Her creative path began early teaching art as a teenager before pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in Architecture Engineering in 2009. She later completed her Master’s in Art and Architecture in 2014, focusing on the relationship between architecture, health, and human well-being.
In 2016, she moved to San Diego, where distance from home and solitude rekindled her connection to art. Painting became her language a way to translate emotion into form. Over time, her work gained recognition in San Diego and Los Angeles. Between her professional architectural projects and interior design studies in San Francisco, painting became her refuge a place where emotion could turn into form.
Years later, she returned to Cyprus, where she met the love of her life and her source of calm and strength. With him, life and art began to breathe again. Each painting became a reflection of feeling and presence, built layer by layer like the spaces she designs grounded in silence, moved by emotion.
In loneliness, she found herself through painting. Each artwork unfolds through layers of color, texture, and material built slowly until it begins to breathe on its own. Her paintings invite the viewer to pause, to look, and to feel — to sense the story that exists beneath the surface.
She paints to give form to what cannot be said. What begins as an escape from grief becomes a return to self a quiet dialogue between absence and creation. She approaches art as a process of discovery rather than decoration, allowing the unseen forces of memory, longing, and transcendence to surface through each layer.
She describes her work as a quiet sanctuary — where structure becomes emotion, and every brushstroke carries a fragment of her story.