GÜLNAME ESLEK

She was born in Trabzon Çaykara in 1974. She completed her elementary and junior high school education in Samsun, and her high school at İnegöl High School. She passed the exam of the Painting Department of Bursa Uludağ University by getting first place in 1992. She began teaching in 1996. The same year, she started her master’s degree study at the Visual and Environmental Studies Department of Istanbul Technical University. She served as a teacher in different locations of Turkey. She participated in painting exhibitions in the country and abroad. Gülname Eslek runs her painting atelier in Çankaya, Ankara. Currently she continues her works of arts through a brand called “ge atelier”.

ABOUT MY WORKS

When I was going to junior high school, I got the third place in a poetry competition in Samsun province. This was the first and the last poetry competition I participated in. I came to an understanding that writing a poem on a subject is something you force yourself. We cannot muzzle the song of our soul and go ahead and murmur the memorized song of our mind. I cannot separate poetry and literature from painting. Since my childhood, they came along together with me. I do write poems when I am not painting. When I am not writing a poem or a piece prose, then I do paint. If I don’t do any of these, then I hum. In case I am not involved any of the above, then it means I must be sick.