Areas of Interest
Buket was born in İzmir in 1954. She spent her childhood and youth in Ankara. After graduating from the T.E.D. Ankara College in 1972 she remained in Ankara and attended the Hacettepe University Faculty of French Language and Literature although she was also accepted to the Mimar Sinan University’s Faculty of Painting because of personal reasons. Buket started her business career in Istanbul and years later she attended the Nevin Çokay workshop to pursue her passion for painting and was able to put out one personal and two combined exhibitions of her art work.
She prefers pastel colors and uses earth tones in her paintings and always tries to portray the light which reflects to her soul from a window which opens to the unknown. It is possible to experience the darkness and brightness, sadness and hope at the same time.
Buket Tunakan, whose paintings are classified as “romantic paintings”, have also attended Gülay Sevsevil’s work shop, has started to paint again after a long interval at her studio in Cihangir. She sells her paintings from her studio.