Member Biography

ARTIST STATEMENT

"Having traversed numerous arduous but fulfilling fields and decades (about sixty years in all) of industrial technological drawing and design, Japanese and American education, Oriental calligraphy and sumi-e painting, Oriental and Western influenced printmaking and painting--and even some sculpture, with forays in depiction with mixed-media approaches with collage techniques, watercolor, tempera, oil painting, ink, brush, or pencil drawing, I believe that these remaining works of these latter years of my artist life will in some cases endure to present my statement of a life well spent in manipulating materials to create forms that depict outer and inner states of my physical and spiritual existence.

This legacy for the eyes and minds of others to fulfill in their guise, to assess, access, and enjoy, I bestow (I hope with grace) trusting to their enjoyment of my production, and also the potential wealth of critical appraisal that may sustain it, along with the distance of the cultural future.

So, to each of these who care, and pause to regard my works, I bestow my best wishes, too, for their versions of their own personal attainments in life--and happiness."

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND IN ART

• Fulbright Grant for study in the U.S.
• Graduate of Cornish School of Allied Arts, Seattle
• Worked in Japan in aircraft production and shipbuilding, as a prominent technical illustrator
• Accomplished fine artist in Japan and the U.S.
• Long exhibition record in America and Japan
• Works on permanent display here and abroad
• Works in numerous private collections

• The Women Painters of Washington
• The Washington Puget Sound Artists
• The National Collage Society
• The National League of American Pen Women
• Other organizations from which many awards and prizes have been received

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