Naoko

With paradise as the setting for her brilliant canvases, fine artist Naoko creates extravagantly dramatic compositions featuring elegant, classical women in the Modigliani-Picasso mold alongside graceful zebras, colorful toucans and regal jaguars against backdrops of swaying palm trees, magnificent orchids and plentiful tureens yielding fruits of exotic harvests.

Allowing oneself to become enveloped by a Naoko painting is to taste the mangoes be chilled by the ocean breeze and warmed by the glow of the tropical sun.

An ever present theme in Naoko's work is that of a woman at ease with her body and at one with nature, such as in "Woman with Panther", where the symbiosis between woman, panther and mango seems simultaneously provocative yet a completely natural occurrence.

Educated at the Nihon Gakuin in Tokyo, Japan, Naoko worked as a graphic designer before moving to The United States in 1982. Almost immediately, her unique primitive naïve signature style garnered impressive awards and a prestigious Certificate of Excellence from Art Horizons.

Hailed by critics and museum curators for her stylized imagery and vibrant palette, Naoko has exhibited in numerous shows. Her originals are sold exclusively through galleries in New York, California, Hawaii and Key West.