Quiet things,
carefully made.

Harriery is the work of Yasin Ütük — an acrylic painter living and working in Voorburg, the Netherlands. The shop is one month old on Etsy, sixteen pieces deep, and openly the early chapter of a longer practice.

Yasin’s pull toward painting started early — there was always a sketchbook nearby — but the serious acrylic work began later, in 2020, after settling in the Netherlands at twenty-five. What had been an interest became a practice almost on its own: a quiet way to spend evenings, a way to keep company with himself in a new country, a way to translate the world he saw into something he could hold.

The catalogue isn’t accidental. Two subjects keep returning: the cosmos — the moon, a black hole, a night sky — and forest, mountain, and nature. The first moves him because of its scale, the way infinity is unanswerable. The second steadies him; calm and serenity look like a woodland to him before they look like anything else.

Underneath both, the aim is the same: warmth, peace, character. The cosmic pieces and the cottagecore pieces serve the same emotional brief — they are different rooms in the same house. Even the whimsical work plays in that key. The Whimsical Night Sky piece, for instance, is the Little Prince held in Van Gogh’s warmth — a Saint-Exupéry character lit by the colour of someone else’s brushwork.

Through the shading, colour, and light, the goal is harmony — and the hope is that a viewer recognises it and feels drawn into a sense of familiarity.