Born in İzmir, Banu Başol graduated from İzmir American College and subsequently from the Department of Business Administration at Boğaziçi University. While pursuing her professional career for many years, she also undertook various ventures in the fields of organic agriculture and textiles. Alongside the experience she gained across different disciplines, she developed her relationship with art and turned her focus toward artistic practice.

She continued her art education in the workshops of Yusuf Taktak, Mehmet Güleryüz, and Yunus Tonkuş, and attended various art workshops in New York. Over time, porcelain became the fundamental material and primary medium of expression in her artistic practice. She worked with Spanish artist Naomi Iglesias at La Meridiana Ceramic School in Italy, and at the workshop of Belgian porcelain artist Tinne Debruijne in Poullignac, France.

Based between Istanbul and New York, Banu Başol creates her works exclusively using porcelain clay and entirely by hand. Drawing inspiration from nature, particularly the formal diversity and organic forms of flowers, the artist interprets the delicate nature of porcelain through her distinctive approach to form. In her practice, which explores the possibilities of the material, handcraftsmanship, delicacy, and the relationship with nature come to the fore.