Artists
Betilay
Founder of Jungle Ink
Born in Istanbul, she was introduced to art at very early age by doing paintings side by side with her father who is an artist. Later, she decided to continue her experience with a different path of the art world, Theatre.
She studied Method Acting and performed in plays, commercials and tv series. She also majored in English Language and Literature. After graduating, she moved to Berlin.
She revisited her earliest passion in life and decided to transform her talent into tattooing. As a tattoo artist, she decided to specialize in fine-line, dotwork and nature-inspired designs with illustrative undertones.
He started his art life with the ancient art of Marbling (Ebru), which he learned from his mother. While practicing the art of Marbling through his early life, he started studying German Language&Literature, and also Foreign Trades.
At the age of 23 he started his first company, which was a foreign trading company. His second achievement was founding an Art Academy for children and adults. While managing the academy he found out that he had a passion for drawing, and started to work in that direction.
Since his early life he had a big interest in tattooing. After moving to Berlin, with the knowledge he acquired through those years, he decided to follow a path in the art of tattooing. The influence of Marbling can be seen in his designs; with brush storks, patterns and splashes.