Mürşide İçmeli

Mürşide İçmeli (1930- )

An artist expressing her with paintings, and expressing paintings with unique printing techniques, she lived and was educated in Istanbul, Elazığ, Malatya, Ankara, Bursa and Konya. She strengthened her education in Madrid and London, travelled around Türkiye and abroad and carried out research.

She was particularly influenced by Hittite culture, Anatolian civilizations, Middle Age Spain, the humanism of the Renaissance, the Baroque, the works of Henry Moore, the Mayas, Turkish Islam and all living creatures.

She used her opportunities to express herself by using gravure techniques. She concentrated on black-white and plane-tissue with techniques such as decoration, settling and geometry. She was not interested in the visible reality of universal and natural things, but worked on the matter of tradition.