Cihan Polat is a watercolor artist, based in İstanbul, Turkey. He makes art using watercolor since 2005. He has an engineering background. He has always been considered as talented about drawing since childhood. He discovered watercolors while doing comics and caricature studies in 2005. Since then, he has been painting watercolors and improving his skills by self-teaching.

He prefers to paint in a loose, experimental and intuitive way rather than following a rule-driven approach. He avoids perfection and realistic re-creation of a scene. He aims to start a journey with his paintings by evoking emotions and feelings. He searches the mood in his paintings and expresses it by means of color and composition.