Mustafa Günen

Mustafa Günen was born in Kırşehir in 1956. By the time he finished primary school he began painting his beloved "picture stories" totaling two hundred pages. After primary school he started working as an apprentice in his father’s furniture workshop. Günen has had to overcome many obstacles on his artistic path but nothing could stop him from painting. He began by painting his own dreamscapes on his furniture pieces, but soon moved to working with oils on canvas. Using a spare palette of black, white, yellow, red and navy blue, Günen renders picture perfect oceanic dreams. Mustafa Günen paints his subject as few have before him and his sea landscapes are so realistic upon viewing. Mustafa Günen′s paintings can be found in collections across Europe, as well as among the private holdings of Nevzat Boztas. His hope is to become the Ellenshaw of his generation, an artist who brings the inscrutability of the ocean to life and mystifies every viewer with his maritime fantasies.