A person lying on the rocky earth just by an ocean,
A person having let her hand swim in the ocean from time to time,
Having leaked deep inside the rocks from time to time,
Carrying the life, beauty, fragility and even chaos of the underground,
Concealing herself in the colors in herself,
In all the colors
Has already called her own colors as “Ellysion”, that is to say
“Underground Heaven”

Başak Temel will display her first personal exhibition " Ellysion - Yeraltı Cenneti " [Ellysion Underground Heaven] for the appreciation of the art-lovers between November 15 and November 30, 2008 at the Gallery of Ankara State Art and Sculpture Museum with the support of Ministry of Culture and Tourism.
Graduating from the Department of Sociology of The Middle East Technical University, Başak Temel’s relation with art started while she was at the elementary school and she continued her studies based on the basic art education delivered by her mother being an art educator.

Believing that productivity and creativity is the indispensible source of development and bliss in human life, she continues her art works at the same time with her professional life. Başak Temel, who reflects her stance, living philosophy, experiences, sensitiveness, joy of living, happiness, anger, dreams and impressions in life through the visual elements such as color- form- texture on the canvas, works with a mixture of techniques on her works and creates original aesthetic tones by employing the opportunities of the known materials and techniques in an extremely wide and creative manner by using mirror for the clip arts and silicon and string for the relieves in her works that she colored with acrylic paint, spray paint and powder bronze. She arranges the abstract and symbolic shapes in her works in a way to reflect the rhythm of life, and creates a very special harmony and visual influence by combining the colors used in various tones and nuances, lusterless texture of the acrylic paint and the contrast relation between the bronze and gleam of mirrors.