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DILEK OGUZ

Dilek Oğuz was born in Balikesir, Turkey in 1946. She graduated from Ankara University, Language, History and Geography Department, specializing on history. She realized her passion towards art while she was teaching highschool. She professionally started focusing on oil painting when she retired in 1994. She took lessons from Dr. Kaya Üçer Münevver Üçer's Studio from the famous artist Sadık Babayev Hanlaroğlu. In June 2001, she participated in Istanbul Kadıköy Belediyesi Caddebostan Civic Center's Art Exhibition. She teamed up with two of her artist colleagues from the studio to form a group named Friday Professionals (Cuma Gunu Ustalari), and participated in another exhibition in the same center in 2002.

Dilek Oğuz strongly believes that in order to be a great artist, one has to go through an intensive training and hard work. You will find that she places a high emphasis on elements such as composition, perspective, color completeness, light and shadow.

Like Montaigne said, Dilek Oğuz also believes that one should look for everything within her/himself, and her/himself within everything. She focused on female figures from different ages, as a result of history and mythology's influence on her. She also loves to travel, and paint sights from nature to share with art lovers.

Dilek Oğuz is married to Governer Dr. Süleyman Oğuz, and has three children: her daughter Barçın, her son Oğuzhan, and Oğuzhan's wife Zeynep. They all support her in her work, and she, with the encouragement she gets from them, pushes herself to higher limits.