Karya Levni (b. 1999, Ankara) is a Turkish oil painter based in Brussels, raised on the Mediterranean coast in Antalya. She trained first under the Turkish watercolourist Rukiye Garip, then took a Diplom in Fine Arts in Berlin, specialising in sculpture, though her calling is painting. She spent three years there working on commissioned mastercopies after the old masters.

With training in her homeland, through European traditions and in the contemporary Berlin art scene, she has a deep pool of techniques and experiences to draw on.

Her current work mixes old master method with impressionist brushwork, on subjects that are mundane and familiar: the warmth of a Mediterranean summer, days in the orchards, the daily rituals of womanhood.

Everything turns on the cup of tea test. A good painting is one you can sit in front of with a cup of tea and genuinely enjoy the presence of. She builds her work that way, from the point of view of the art lover as much as her own.

She calls herself a beholder-oriented painter.