Garip Ay

Garip Ay was born in Siirt in 1984. He was interested in painting from an early age, and this was reflected in his education. In 2000 he graduated from the Fine Arts High School in Diyarbakır. He then completed his studies in the Traditional Turkish Arts department at Mimar Sinan University with honors. Garip Ay has organized countless exhibitions, workshops and seminars in Turkey, Scandinavia, Russia, the US and the Persian Gulf region. He has even taken part in various projects, such as a thirty-episode television documentary series. He has taken the art of ebru (paper marbling) to new dimensions and brought his own unique perspective to it.