Pinar Giray

Pinar Giray is a skilled ink and watercolour artist. She paints scenes of nature and creates intricate ink designs depicting a range of images from birds and flowers to the peculiar and whimsical. Her interest in art started at a very early age. She used to draw and design patterns instead of paying attention in class. This is what drew her attention and how she processed the world around her. She was born in Ankara, Turkey and lived in Istanbul until her first year of university when she got married and came to Canada. She became a full time homemaker and a mother but she never stopped making art. She was always doodling, drawing and designing in her spare moments. Between the years of 1998 - 2003, she took several art classes at the Visual Art Centre in Montreal. She learned from artists; Heather Midori Yamada, Elisabeth Galante and Jose Duclos. In 2012, she took an intensive watercolour class with Pierre Tougas. In 2007, she had a solo exhibition of her watercolour works in Istanbul, Turkey. You can find her art in numerous private collections across Canada and Turkey. She currently lives with her husband in Montreal where she works out of her home studio.