Yasemin Vardarlılar was born in 1981 in Istanbul.
She graduated in 2005 from Bryant University's Faculty of Arts in Communications.
She grew up in an art collector family with continuous visits to museums and exhibitions and surrounded by paintings. Art has been something she has always felt drawn to. Vardarlilar, who has been designing private and corporate events for many years, took the decision to transform her passion for enhancing spaces one step further and she started creating ceramic vases and objects. In 2016, she
established her own ceramic studio after taking lessons in the studios of leading names. She started to produce her first works by experiencing different types of clays and glazing techniques. She continues to improve her techniques by tooking ceramic classes in Italy at various art institutions.
The artist who uses different materials such as natural stones, mosaics, ceramic pieces and glass in addition to clay in her works, extends the limits of ceramic’ basic structure and aims to catch a fresh and contemporary look.
In her works she blends in myths, mythological characters, past and future with everyday images engraved in her mind. The stories unfold on the surface of the vase 360 degrees. Before creation, an empty photoshop page opens on her mind, like the layers of the photoshop program after glazing she adds another layer of porcelain or ceramic pieces, natural stones or mosaics with a special technique she invented.
Main theme in her works is the imaginary journey they are taking you from this reality. There is always a permanent quest of ‘‘what else is possible?’’ What magic is available beyond this physical life ?’’
The works in the series ‘‘Underwater Jewels’’ were fictionalized as pieces rescued from the submerged utopian continent ‘Atlantis’. Each artifact carries traces of the civilization on the continent of Atlantis. In another series she questions if body & soul are synchronized. She asks the viewers ‘‘What if your body extended with your soul?’’ and with this question works take you on an imaginary journey through the metamorphoses of the bodies and definitions of the human.