2011 will mark the Michiko's 10th year of her Watercolor career.

10 years ago Michiko was introduced to watercolor painting at a SUNY Potsdam Summer course."That was an eye opening experience for me," says Michiko, "although I love painting since I was in school, I never had the chance to start all over until the Summer of 2001. After my children graduated from college I started working at watercolor full-time and feel I found my life-long friend."

Michiko paints nearly every day and loves it so much she cannot even
think of any other medium to try.

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Artist's Statement

I love flowers for my subject, especially the close focus point of view.  For me, there can't be a better medium than watercolor for this subject.  A soft delicate flower's nature, or the essence of ripe juicy fruit cand be achieved by a drop of pigment on the wet paper.  The excitement when unpredictable results happen with movement of water is unmatched by anything else.  Although I love flowers I am now finding it interesting to  paint landscapes, buildings and machines and will continue to experiment with different subjects.