Emine Yılmaz was born in Istanbul in 1974. Yilmaz started to train marbling with Gülden Gürdamar in 2003 in İSMEK courses. After working for 3 years at İSMEK, she founded MAVERA Art Workshop with her teacher Gürdamar and her friends in 2006. Yilmaz, who received her license in 2008 and the Artist Presentation Card of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism in 2014, continues her works at their workshop.