Surfacing Painting

I am the daughter of an erudite, artistic, city-loving father whose career took him to rural Colorado. His father was an electrician who wired the authentic Buddhist temple in San Jose's Japantown. As a boy, my father accompanied his Dad on frequent work trips to the temple and he developed warm relationships with the adults he met there. This began a life-long love of Japanese culture for my father who passed it on to his children, including me. In my childhood, weekend trips to Denver included visits to Japanese markets, art exhibits, or a visit to Mrs's Noda's house where my father took Japanese brush painting classes. As a teenager I began a life-long study of Japanese textile design. From there, my fascination with koi seen on many trips to Japanese gardens became a focus of many paintings on silk.