Arzu Atalay was born in Adapazarı in 1968. She graduated from Tourism and Hospitality Management Department of Eskişehir Anadolu University. In 2011, she started to take marbling lessons from Şükran Aydın. She is still taking marbling lessons from Mahmut Peşteli. She has been giving marbling lessons at Sakarya Specialization Center since 2015 and she also continues her studies in her own workshop. She has participated various exhibitions like Istanbul International Marbling Congress in 2016, National Marbling Exhibition. Her students are Nurbanu Çolak, Yasemin Çötekçioğlu, Esin Ekici, Şeyma Girgin, Gülnur Karakaş, Elif Tekmil, Zuhal Sarı, Dilek Şirin.