biography

I found my artistic home when I had the privilege of viewing the original illuminated manuscript of Mevlana Jelaluddin Rumi’s “Masnevi” in Konya.  The refined and beautifully proportioned “biomorphic” motifs, in gold and precious colours, ignited in my heart the desire to devote myself to the study of this art.  Since then, my focus has been on studying the design language of early 15th-century Timurid-era manuscripts, led by the informed integrity of my teacher, and on the early 13th-century Seljuk-era architectural masterpiece that is the Divriği Mosque and Hospital in present-day Türkiye.  

My vocation and passion is on the study of these “biomorphic” motifs through intentional and profound understanding of their proportions, rhythmic unfolding, harmonic placement and symbolic reference.  In “collecting” these motifs, my research deepens in its purpose.