Annie Deneyici’s artistic journey began in primary school, where she filled her notebooks with landscapes and flowers in different colours, forms and compositions. At the end of the school year, her teachers kept those notebooks as examples for other students, drawn to their care, visual rhythm, clean presentation and artistic detail.

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In the following years, she created gentle animal paintings for her son when he was a baby for his nursery.

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At the age of twenty five, Annie began studying at Mimar Sinan University, Faculty of Fine Arts. She spent a year focused entirely on academic drawings.

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Annie eventually returned to painting, this time with a deeper focus on oil paint. She continued her studies at the Istanbul Academy and soon became an assistant to her teacher. During this period, she represented her university at fine art fairs and developed a strong focus on portrait painting. Some of her works were exhibited and featured on television.

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She later moved to Spain, where she continued developing her practice and began hosting art workshops in her home studio. She taught both children and adults, many of them from international families.

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She organized summer camps, exhibitions and began accepting commissioned works in portraiture, landscape, pop art and surrealist styles for many years.

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Annie’s next project was creating a horse themed painting collection and exhibited the works in a local restaurant in Istanbul. The response was immediate and deeply encouraging. The exhibition led to new commissions, and every painting in the horse collection was sold.

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Shortly after, she received a major commission from a hotel project that is under construction.

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Hotel Sultania. For the hotel’s themed rooms, she created forty five portraits of Ottoman sultans’ wives, completing the entire project in six months.

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Hotel Sultania got 4 consecutive Tripadvisor Traveler’s Choice Awards.

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Following the Hotel Sultania project, an Armenian church commissioned Annie to create religious icons on wooden panels. These works included portraits of Jesus and saints, extending her practice into sacred and symbolic portraiture.

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Annie’s works has been exhibited and sold in Istanbul, Spain, Toronto, Montreal, Miami and to collectors around the world.

After moving to Canada, she began reflecting on life in her new surroundings through painting. This period led to the creation of the “OH Canada!” collection and a wildlife series.

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Her first Canadian exhibition took place at The Pilot, one of Toronto’s oldest pubs and a venue known for supporting local artists since the 1980s. Annie became the first artist in The Pilot’s history to sell an entire exhibition.

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She later created the “Spirit Animal Collection,” which also sold in full.

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Among her later bodies of work is “Impactful Icons,” a series of 13 black and white portraits portraying historical figures who left a powerful mark on humanity. The series reflects on legacy, influence and the lasting presence of these figures in collective memory.

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Her most recent work, “The Book of Divine Connection.”

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The piece brings together spiritual connection, human presence and symbolic storytelling through Annie Deneyici’s evolving visual language.