Aziz
Başan

I have lived mostly in the UK. However, in 2008 we took up residence in Bodrum, on the Aegean coast.
My interest in art stems from when I studied sumi-e in Japan and oil painting while briefly in Turkey. I continued to work with brush and India ink throughout my working life in the UK, where I settled. Whilst there I followed the works of the so-called London School with close interest, namely Hockney, Kitaj, Auerbach, Kossoff, Freud and of course Bacon, not to mention British artists who emerged later.
I am an Economics graduate from the University of London and have a PhD from the University of Edinburgh. My PhD dissertation was published by Routledge in 2010 as The Great Seljuqs – A History.
In Bodrum I studied life drawing with Zeynep Çavuş and then Art with Ayla Eriş, founder of the Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University Fine Arts Faculty. I continue to study various aspects of composition with Ayla Eriş whose paintings are held in collections worldwide.