Ayşenur Kadakçı Velioğlu was born in Istanbul in 1966. She completed her undergraduate and graduate studies at Mimar Sinan University Fine Arts Faculty Traditional Turkish Handicrafts Department. Velioğlu, who participated in various exhibitions both at home and abroad, still gives illumination classes at the Classical Turkish Arts Foundation. Ayşe Sayın, Şule Pamuk, Ayfer Demir, Sema Akpunar, Sümeyye Akyol and Zehra Koblay are some of the students she trained.