Nil BATMANOĞLU / Digital Collage Artist / Turkey

Her interest in art, which has continued since she was a child, started with music and side flute training at the age of 9. She graduated with a certificate after completing her 4-year instrument and solfeggio training at Pera Fine Arts High School. Later, she continued her musical life by playing in the orchestras of that institution and still plays her music as the 1st flute in the Pera Chamber Orchestra. She crowned her tendency towards painting and design with fashion during her high school years and became a fashion design student at Rüştü Uzel Anatolian Vocational High School. She studied Fashion Design at the University by receiving a scholarship at the Faculty of Fine Arts of Beykent University. She tried to master Adobe programs by taking Graphic Design courses in the gaps she found during her university years. Increasingly, graphic design has become her profession and she works as an art director in an advertising agency. She maintains her interest in painting by participating in domestic or international exhibitions through the Recreation Association of which she is an active member, and the Illustrators Platform.