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Snow on a sand bank (Yosemite)

I always have been challenged by new paintings. Just like opening the door of a new world. It’s a little scary but her curiosity opens the door and that stimulates me to go forward. The process of painting is learning, being disappointed, being exited, and a kind of a journey that I enjoy very much. When I am painting, I feel like I am meditating, being in an invisible world by myself.

I use wet in wet technique to bring out water medium’s uniqueness and charm, and layers of glazing to create very rich watercolor paintings.

I try to retain the distinctive look that is associated with the medium.

Gladiolus (Purple)

Pink Gladiolus

Iris & Maple

My painting "Mendocino Headlands II" was used in the Mendocino Music Festival posters for 2004.

Koi II

Dancing Poppies

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. 

Poppies on July 4th

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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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