Biography
In 2008, Aziz Başan moved to Bodrum, Turkey, where he studied life drawing and later Basic Arts and continues to study composition.
Aziz’s oil and acrylic works have appeared frequently in group exhibitions held in Bodrum, where he has also held solo exhibitions. After joining lebriz.com he had a solo exhibition in Istanbul and continues to exhibit on their online portal, the latest of which was held June 2021. More recently he has exhibited in three group exhibitions in Bodrum.
In 2019, his work was accepted for exhibition at RE:ARTISTE’s 5th Annual International Exhibition “Show Your World” in New York.
Aziz’s interest in art stems from his studies of sumi-e in Japan during his early teens. He continued to work with brush and India ink throughout university and into his working life in the UK where the Berlin-born artist settled in 1962.
A software engineer, he ran his own consultancy in Istanbul after which he returned to establish a woodland farm in Scotland in 1997. Whilst there he acquired a Ph.D. from the University of Edinburgh in 2003.
Routledge published his book, “The Great Seljuqs – A History”, in 2010.
