Zeynep

Zeynep Özdem Sözmen is a painter and developer. She was born in Erzurum in 1996 and grew up in a family where art was part of everyday life: her grandfather and her older brother are calligraphers, and her father is a painter and a poet. She has been painting since she was a child.

She completed her university studies in Erzurum, then moved to Istanbul to work as a developer and lived there for five years. She now lives in Ankara.

For a long time, she dreamed of bringing her painting and her work in software together. Today she builds apps that use her own paintings, a way to carry them into new places and share them with new people, such as the pages of a daily journal. Software has become the second field of her working life, and while she works on her apps, she keeps painting.