From Japan, Mayumi keeping an oriental heritage, expressed her passion for art at an early age. She first attended an art club, then an artistic high school where she studied oil painting techniques. Graduated in interior design at School of Design, she arrived in Milan, Italy and attended the Scuola Politecnica Design. Here she lived and worked for over ten years, after the experience of several offices, then for a decade in Matteo Thun and Partners. 

She moved to the United Kingdom for two years.  In the UK she attended prestigious watercolour courses and won several awards.  Her move to the UK marked a fundamental transformation of her work and life. Changing from design to watercolours, Mayumi left Milan and her design career.

The turning point happened by following her intuition and talent. She discovered watercolours,  studying and deepening her technique. She transformed gradually her passion into work. First in Great Britain, a country of big watercolour tradition; then moved to Hamburg where she currently lives. She works with quick, rapid movements, painting ceaselessly, seizing the day and the light capturing the eternity of a moment. She synthesizes her love for watercolour through the characteristics of freshness, transparency and spontaneity.

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