Songul Terlemez
Artist Bio
She was born in a small town in Turkey. She attended elementary school, secondary school, and high school in Ankara, the capital of Turkey. She could not go to college and started working. At the age of 20, she moved to a seaside town, and that's when she realized she loved painting. She gave birth to her first child, but the baby only lived for three days. She tried to get through this pain by painting. Most of the time, she conveyed her pain to her paintings and comforted them. When she opened a café and started running it, she exhibited her paintings in her workplace for the first time she did it as an amateur. She was painting without training. Years later, she took three years of lessons from an Art teacher in town. She learned to be original and use her imagination to paint, light, and shadow.
After living in that town for many years, she immigrated to the big city of Istanbul. She was attending exhibitions in Istanbul, making friends, and learning new techniques from them. She has organized many exhibitions. She started painting in a workshop with some friends. The texture experiments were doing their paintings in 3D. When she started a picture, she did texture and then reminiscent. They started selling these paintings through a company in Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and Cyprus. She painted over 5,000 paintings in three years. She was awarded a certificate from the Ministry of Culture and Tourism indicating that her paintings were worth a work of art. In 2018, she moved to New Jersey, USA with her husband and daughter. Now she is in the city where she loves to paint. Songul Terlemez has two 1st prizes, one 2nd prize, and one 3rd prize in various competitions held in Canada, an online exhibition catalog.