Artist
Meryem Minbay
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Combed Marble
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Combed Marble
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Ebru Art
Ebru is a traditional art of creating patterns with pigments on water before transferring the prints to paper and fabric. It has been a print making art perfected by many cultures to enrich calligraphy and book binding for centuries.
This art form may have been brought from my ancestral culture Türkistan to Iran on the Silk Road in the 16th Century. In Persian the word Ebru means clouds which may be due to the popular stone pattern that appear like clouds in the sky. Ebru then made its way to Turkey where I grew up and spread to Europe by travelers, mainly Germany where I am now happily living.
Meryem Minbay
Inspiration
Ebru Art
“Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you love. It will not lead you astray.”
Rumi
Meryem Minbay
“The object isn’t to make art, it’s to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.”
~ Robert Henri