Art lovers fall in love with record-breaking Falling into the Picture exhibition in Southsea
SOUTHSEA has fallen in love with the pictures at the most successful exhibition held at the Community Cinema and Arts Centre.
Leyla Sabah opened her exhibition - Falling into the Picture - at the venue last month and it has had the biggest impact in terms of engagement, attention and the number of individual works sold. Leyla is an internationally exhibiting artist, educator, and active participant in biennials, fairs, and group exhibitions both in her home country of Turkey and abroad. She said: “I see art as a process of inner development — a quiet journey where beauty is sensed, not possessed. The artist is not the one who captures beauty, but the one who is not caught by it.”
Centre director Aysegul Epengin said: ‘Over the years, I’ve watched her change her life drastically in order to create her paintings — choosing art, honesty, and inner growth even when it wasn’t the easy path.
‘This exhibition isn’t just about paintings on walls. It’s about presence, intuition, and becoming — allowing yourself to enter the painting itself and lose yourself in it. That is why it is called Falling into the Picture.’
The exhibition runs at the centre in Palmerston Road - which celebrates its fourth birthday in May - until February 18. Opening hours are Tuesday to Sunday, 12-7pm.