Katherine Nakamura

I am currently a graduate TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) student who has a lifelong passion to create and try out various mediums (colored pencil, acrylic, collage, multimedia), and aspires to integrate the Arts into teaching English to children around the world, hopefully in regions where access to education is limited. Here, I share part of my creative journey into a theme that I closely connect to. I explore repetition formerly using colored pencil, now with oil pastel and collage work. I also reflect on my Japanese American heritage, nature, and influences from my favorite Impressionist, Post-Impressionist artists. Artists I am greatly inspired by include Vincent van Gogh, Claude Monet, Edouard Manet, Georges Seurat, Paul Signac, Richard E. Miller, Yayoi Kusama, and so many others.