About
Nagihan Seymour is a UK based Turkish artist. Although she is a materials engineer, she has been interested in art since her university years. She started to study traditional arts privately in 2008 in Istanbul, Turkey, learning the tradition and techniques involved in the discipline from Hanifi Dursun. Manuscript illumination was the major part of her studies, and as her style has developed, she started to combine sacred geometry with classic illumination, putting a modern twist on an ancient art form. She is also interested in traditional İznik ceramic and creates artworks in this field. Nagihan works as a full time artist joining art fairs in the UK. She had her first solo exhibition “Reflection and Illumination” in March 2017 at The Lightbox Gallery, Woking, which was one of the bestselling exhibitions of the gallery followed by many other exhibitions. Since 2018, she has been teaching tezhip at Yunus Emre Institute London.