Psychobiography studies focus on the lives of historically important people in their socio-cultural context based on various psychological theories. In present psychobiography the motives and motivational processes of an artist were examined by utilizing the concepts of goals, goal orientation, processes of goal setting, need for achievement and need for meaning. Five methodological steps of psychobiography were followed. (1) Fureya Koral who was a pioneering ceramic artist of Republican Era of Turkey and began her artistic works in relatively late in age was chosen as figure to be focused on. (2) In order to collect data about her several interviews published in the art magazines and newspapers, exhibition catalogues and also a biographical novel by Ayşe Kulin were used as sources. (3) The concepts of goal setting, need for achievement and need for meaning were chosen to analyse the motivations behind her great enthusiasm on ceramic art. (4) These motivational concepts were applied to a person's orientations during the periods of her life and, data were analysed by coding into analytical categories. (5). The results of the analyses and evaluations pointed out that there are two groups of goals named "recovery goals" and "artistic goals". It became clear that in the course of goal setting Fureya experienced a present-ideal discrepancy and, utilized Test-Operate-Test-Exit (TOTE) process to reach her goals. Her goals were kinds of aims to be hard to achieve, specific and longtermed. It seems that she had abstract goals by achieving apparently concrete goals. Furthermore, it was found that she had a strong need for achievement and initially she had performance goals afterwards she turned towards mastering ones. She had been also in high need for meaning. The study supported the usefulness of the motivational concepts of goals, need for achievement and search for meaning to scrutinizing a particular person's life. In addition, this psychobiography that is comprehensive analysis based on the number of motivational concepts can be considered as an example for future psychobiography studies in which the lives of another person is examined with the same or different concepts.