About

Ayako Miyawaki is a Japanese artist. Married and mother of three children, she lived in Nagoya. Her husband Haru Miyawaki was a painter, inspired by occidental portraitists. We can find common inspirations in both works.
In 1945, shortly after the end of the Second World War, she began to create as she got more spare time. She began to develop a new kind of art, unknown at this time and based on traditional textile technique: clothes appliqués. The technique of appliqué consists in sewing different pieces of materials on a larger surface to create a new shape. She retrieved and received …