Kuniko Watanuki, Japanese painter and architect, was born in Tokyo. Always fascinated by painting since earliest childhood, she was forced to abandon it temporarily while working as an architect. However she took up painting again, as soon as, married to an Italian, she began living in various countries, Italy, USA, Brazil, France, finally landing in Switzerland, in Lugano, where she now resides. From these various countries the artist has derived many different impressions which, merging with her innate oriental artistic talent, have resulted in her present many-sided art production. Kuniko is equally at ease while expressing herself in landscape paintings of typical italian imprint as well as in delicate flower images against a background of japanese ideograms. This sensitive artist employs the different hues of colour to express her inner feelings. Her production is constantly growing in variety and interest, however without owing anything to passing fashions. Her talent is nourished by the rich cultural soil of both her civilisations, the oriental as well the western one. Sussy Errera, July 2003

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