Hakan Kilic and his family celebrate his mother-in-law's birthday every year in Turkey's Yalova province next to a portrait of her made from her cremated ashes. Serap Lokmaci, who occasionally works ...

After the ashes dry, he completes the portrait with acrylic paint. “Well, my favorite part is when I hand over a painting. They see it for the first time, and they instantly just start crying ...

“That really triggered an emotional response to my art that I hadn't really experienced before,” Rottmann said. “People have ...

A Swedish art gallery in Lund reportedly has cancelled the exhibition of a painting made of Holocaust victims’ ashes. (JTA) — A Swedish art gallery in Lund reportedly has cancelled the ...

[[nid:713204]] Lokmaci, the artist, said the process of painting with ashes was like "a farewell ceremony, a spiritual journey" for her. In the small studio where she works in Urgup, a town in ...

Paintings and portraits can help preserve the memory of lost loved ones — but a Kuna artist goes a step further by incorporating ashes into those works of art.