Ayşegül Tekmen was born in Istanbul in 1981. She took charcoal drawing, water color, oil painting, acrylic and clip art classes from Cemal Toy at Little Hagia Sophia Painting Workshop in 1998 and served as Toy’s assistant for a long period of time. She started studying thuluth-naskh with Hüseyin Kutlu at the Applied Turkish-Islamic Arts Library in 2000, and received her license in 2000. Tekmen, who participated in many exhibitions, has been giving khatt classes at Bahariye Mevlevihane Art Workshop since 2013 and at KAGEM Beşiktaş Sinanpaşa since 2016. She continues her artistic works at her workshop in Fatih.