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Mariko Irie

I am a lifelong painter; I received my BFA at Musashino Art University in Tokyo, then studied printmaking with Robert Rhodes and American realism painting with Bill Martin at College of the Redwoods in Fort Bragg.

I began as an interior designer in Tokyo, but wanted a simpler way of life, which I found through my move to Mendocino in 1982, and therefore a chance to pursue painting.

Ocean

I came to Northern California in the Summer 1982. I felt in love with Mendocino. This is my dreamland. This beauty overwhelmed me. Nature is too great to copy. I’ve stayed with it, I am here. I am a part of it. I'm a woman, a mother and an artist. I want to try to paint this beauty through my heart on to paper.

Lotus & Butterfly

Mendocino Headlands IV

I have been in numerous solo and group shows, I have been awarded prizes and I was chosen to create the Winesong ‘95 poster.

Calalily Season III

My work is well known locally, widely collected in the U.S.A, Japan, England, Germany and Canada. My works are in the public collection of Newport Communications and the Miasa Governor.

Lotus

I am represented in the Northcoast Artists Gallery in Fort Bragg, the Mendocino Art Center and the Highlight Gallery in Mendocino and at www.mariko-irie.com. I also teach watercolor class at the Mendocino Art Center. 
Mariko Irie was born and raised in Tokyo. In 1972 she received her BFA from the Musashino Art University. She was disgusted and exhausted from the kind of art present in Tokyo in the middle of the 1970's. She became fascinated with American realism (called super realism in Japan.)

After a stressful life as an interior designer for 10 years, she began to desire the simpler world of nature. In 1982, she moved to Mendocino from Tokyo. She started to paint pictures more than ever before.

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