Kayomi Harai                      

 

                                                                   Biography

 

Born in Osaka, Japan, Kayomi is a self-taught artist with a unique vision and full of imagination.

She paints wide range of animals like cats, tigers, leopards, pandas, wolves, eagles and dragons.  She has developed her own detailed style of painting using watercolor over pastel. She tries to depict the personalities of the animals and emphasizes their unspoken eloquence.

 

Her works have been exhibited and licensed around the world.

She exhibits yearly at Surtex in New York and Licensing Expo in Las Vegas.

 

Currently she lives in San Jose, California.

 

 

 

 

                                                             Shows

 

1994    ‘Japanese Artists Show’   Classic Art Gallery, Carmel, California

1996    ‘Wonders of Nature’    Mondiale Fine Arts & Treasures, Hong Kong

1997    ‘Art of the Living World’    Bonhams, Singapore

1998    ‘Wildlife Art Sale’   Christie’s, London

1998    ‘Wildlife Exhibition & Benefit’   Ambleside Gallery, Detroit, Michigan

2000    ‘Art and the Animal’   Fairfield Public Gallery, Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin

2002    ‘National Geographic Society Wildlife Exhibition’   Explorer’s Hall, Washington, D.C.

2004    ‘Reflections’   Stanford Art Spaces, Stanford, California