[2][1][3] She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Istanbul, where she was a student of Hüseyin Tahirzade Behzat in the 1940s, majoring dually in miniature and tezhip.
[5][6] Upon the establishment of the Chair of Traditional Turkish Crafts in 1976 at the Academy of Fine Arts and the re-establishment of the Traditional Turkish Arts department, which had been shut down in the political climate of the 1960 coup, she became a teacher of miniature at the academy.
[7][1] She has also taught miniature at other places such as the Basın Müzesi[8] as well as at special courses at Atelye Gamsız for those preparing to enter the Mimar Sinan University entrance examinations, along with her brother Gürdal who specialised in sculpture and also Leylâ Gamsız, Mahmut Cuda, Avni Arbaş, Nevin Çokay, Güler Diler, Mesut Üldaş and Edis Tezel.
Among this exhibitions miniatures and paintings was Şeküre ve Kara (1999) which was inspired by Orhan Pamuks book titled My Name Is Red.
Her funeral was two days later on 6 January at the Merkez Efendi Mosque, and she was laid to rest at the Merkezefendi Cemetery.