430. Going in the Sunshine	367. A Sky is A Limit, Baby	Mariko Irie Interview by www.dailypaintworks.com
421. Iris & Moon 330. Wave for you	Welcome and thank you for stopping by my website. Please come to my blog. I write more often. I'm going to teach one day workshop in Healdsburg on May 16, 2013. The limit of sheets is twelve and filled. Thank you Evelyn. See you who ever signed up this workshop. I'm going to teach workshop "Luminous Watercolor" on July 6 & 7, 2013 at Mendocino Art Center. More information, please visit at http://www.mendocinoartcenter.org/Summer13/Irie.html I hope to see you.   MARIKO IRIE Born and raised in Tokyo, lifelong artist Mariko Irie received her BFA at Musashino Art University in Tokyo. In 1982 Mariko moved to Mendocino to pursue her painting . She studied printmaking with Robert Rhodes and American Realism painting with Bill Martin at College of the Redwoods in Fort Bragg. In November of 2009 she moved to San Diego to expand her world. Now she is back in the Northern California. Mariko’s search for peace and eternal beauty finds expression in the silence of her paintings in which her images give the viewer room for contemplation. For over twenty years Mariko has been fascinated by watercolor. She uses a wet into wet technique, working with the special properties of watercolor to enhance the medium’s unique charm. Layers of transparent glazes create very rich paintings which delight the viewer with their traditional style and wonderful contemporary feel. Now she is focus on painting in Watermixable Oil which is made from pigment and linseed oil, which doesn’t contain turpentine, paint thinner, such fume which she is allergic to. Watermixable Oil painting is forgiving. She is really enjoying painting in this rich and vivid color medium as well as painting in Watercolor. She has been in numerous solo and group shows, receiving prizes as well as having paintings selected for posters of the Winesong 1995, the Mendocino Music Festival 2004,  “The Voices From Earth” concert 2005,  “Art in the Garden” 2008 and a cover of the magazine “Mendocino Arts” winter issue 2008.  Her art works are well known locally and widely collected privately and publicly throughout the United States, Japan, England, Germany and Canada,. At present the paintings of Mariko Irie can be seen at the Northcoast Artists Gallery in fort Bragg,  the Mendocino Art Center and The Highlight Gallery in the village of Mendocino and at the very charming Wine Tasting Room at Glendeven Inn, Little River, California.	345. A Pear 233.Woman's back 400. What Did You Find? 316. A Bird