Banu Arığ was born in Elbistan in 1980. She started taking marbling classes in 2000 and received her license from Sadreddin Özçimi in 2005. Arığ also received illumination training from Şehnaz Özcan, and still gives marbling classes at the Applied Turkish-Islamic Arts Library and İSMEK. Some of the students Arığ trained are Duygu Kırkıcı and Melek Şahin.