The Lore of Patulika... a realm of soulmade relics, hidden gems and creatures... where silence speaks in unwritten languages...
The Beginning...
Patulika grew from my artistic journey, for years— slowly taking shape alongside my work, until its scattered fragments began to reveal a world of their own. The name Patulika came from my son when he was very little. A child's word,
born from that mysterious place where language, imagination and intuition still mingle freely. I kept it because it seemed to carry something I could not quite name: something childlike, yet strangely ancient; playful, yet wise, wild, mysterious and wonderfully unpredictable. It felt like the name of a creature, a place, perhaps even a small world waiting to be discovered. And so Patulika began to grow.
A world somewhere between the visible and the unseen, where imagination becomes landscape, creatures become companions, and objects carry stories. Patulika is an Otherworld existing somewhere alongside our own — timeless,
yet touched by the present. Its visual language carries traces of the baroque and the fantastical, mixed with the modern and transformed through my own way of seeing, dreaming and making. Its portals open through imagination
and intention.
Why Soulmade?
Soulmade is more than handmade.
Handmade describes the hand that creates. Soulmade speaks of where a creation comes from.
The objects of Patulika begin as visions, feelings, creatures, fragments of stories — something half-seen that asks
to become real. Through my craft — a personal alchemy of intuition, imagination, material, colour and intention
— they cross the threshold from the unseen into the tangible.
The hands become the portal. The material becomes the language.
Each piece is a small fragment of Patulika, carrying something of its energy, atmosphere and intention into our world.
Soulmade is the art of making the invisible tangible.
The Lore Continues...
Patulika is not a finished world.
The Patulika Realm grows and changes with every new work, every creature that appears, every story that reveals itself and every portal that opens. Its lore will continue to unfold here, little by little — for Patulika is still becoming.
Mila Issaya is a visual artist and Master of Graphic Arts (ENSAD), educated in Paris, where she lived and worked for over 20 years.
Her practice spans drawing, painting, collage, jewelry, and sculpture, reflecting a versatile and exploratory approach to form
and material. A traveler at heart, she has journeyed across the world, including long periods of travel by bicycle, gathering impressions from diverse landscapes, cultures, and quiet human encounters. These experiences subtly inform her visual language, which is rooted in intuition, memory, and continuous observation. Her work moves between personal exploration and broader artistic dialogue, often unfolding through experimentation with materials and processes. Alongside her studio practice, she leads workshops focused on creative
expression and discovery. ​
