I am a Japanese Canadian who has been drawing and painting for as long as I can remember. My passion for watercolours led me to hang up my hard hat and steel toed shoes and embrace art as a full time profession and I have been selling paintings through galleries since the late 1980's. When my children were young I wrote and illustrated several small handsized books to entice them to read. Though none were ever published, I was soon approached by Tutkam Books to illustrate 'The Changeling' by Mary Withers, which was on the Edmonton Public Library's recommended reading list for young readers...more
