A Contemporary Turkish ceramic artist: Candeğer Furtun

Candeğer Furtun is an artist who works hard and steadily to create the authentic forms that express her thougths and feelings, by using the ceramic techniques. Besides her long and intense investigations of the ceramic techniques, she also tried to bring out the expressive characteristic of the ceramic art, apart from its functionality. She received serious education on Painting and Ceramics, in Türkiye and in USA, from 1954 till 1963. On her return home, she set up her own studio and worked meticulously on glazes and clays. As a result of her long endeavours, she integrated her original glazes into her authentic forms. Refraining from showy colouring, she combined the formal movement with the ceramic object idea and reached a refinement in her authentic forms. Although, she created her first works within the traditional ceramic methods, later, she developed a slab technique that she used for her sculptural wall panels. The figures, in her recent works, which one recognize her progress on the fact of figurative art, have been given freedom by removing them from the walls. Both her wall panels and forms are parts of human figure, and 3 dimensional. Candeğer Furtun is still working in her studio as a free artist. V