After leaving Senior High School I went on to study at Hokkaido Agricultural and Horticultural School at Sapporo, Hokkaido.
In 1995 I went to the United Kingdom to study for one year at The Royal Horticultural Society at Wisley.
This was followed in 1997 with a one year training programme at Longwood Gardens, Pennsylvania, United States of America.
In 1999 I again returned to the United Kingdom where I spent a year working in a large private garden in Surrey. From there I went to study at Leeds Metropolitan University. I graduated in 2003 with a B.A.hons in Art and Garden Design.
My art is created from natural materials. I like the colours in Nature. I marvel at the constant changes throughout the year.
I am fascinated by shadows, from the deepest black in midsummer to pale silver grey in the weak winter sun. I take joy in the slow decay when everything eventually returns to the earth, only to be re-born.
By using materials provide by Nature, my art slowly changes colour, viewing from different angles and in different lights provides a new perspective.
Some of my work is designed for outdoors and is intended to be transitory. It will eventually be re-claimed by Nature, but in return Nature will provide me with more materials for my art.
