İrem Sena Dereci

About the artist

İrem Sena Dereci is an artist and instructor who combines her architectural background with miniature painting and traditional Turkish arts.

Biography

İrem Sena Dereci works across several disciplines, including painting and calligraphy, and has recently focused on miniature painting, which she also teaches. She graduated from Fatih Sultan Mehmet Vakıf University’s Architectural Restoration program in 2018 and its Architecture Department in 2024. After her architectural education, she turned to traditional Turkish arts, studying—and continuing to study—with respected artists in the field. Combining her architectural background with the traditional visual language of miniature painting, she creates works featuring architecture, nature, plant forms, and figures. Drawing on traditional techniques and aesthetics, she focuses on developing original compositions and a visual language of her own. In addition to miniature painting, she has studied paper marbling and Kufic calligraphy, bringing knowledge from these different traditional disciplines into her work. She now also teaches miniature painting.

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