Haluk Armağan, born in Ankara, Turkey in 1954. Graduating from high school, he enrolled in Middle East Technical University to study Management Science and later transferred to Bogazici University, graduating in 1978. After a number of years working in Ankara, his successful career in business continued in the USA for over 25 years. Back in Turkey in 2008, he continued to work in the family business and in 2012 finally decided to leave and pursue his childhood passion for painting. In the last eight years, he has been quite fortunate to have worked with Ken Buck and Carin Habenstreit, both distinguished artists and academicians at the Cincinnati Art Academy. In Istanbul where he continues to spend his winters, he works at the Martan Art Studio under the guidance of Sait Gunel, a prominent artist known for both his watercolor and acrylic paintings in Turkey and Europe. He has also participated in a number of Orhan Taylan’s workshops. As a teenager, he was fortunate enough to live and study in Japan as well as Italy for a number of years, getting exposed to and absorbing the rich culture and art of the Far East and Renaissance Europe. Currently, if not traveling, he works at his studio in Bodrum where he spends his summer months. In his recent works, he continues to explore the conundrum between hope and despair, between past and present, between myth and reality and the history of this land and the uncertainty of the present.
