Mariko Aikawa took up botanical painting in 2004, following a career as a translator / interpreter at an Embassy in Tokyo. She became a Fellow of the Society of Botanical Artists (SBA), UK in 2009 and exhibited with them on numerous occasions.
Mariko Aikawa took up botanical painting in 2004, following a career as a translator / interpreter at an Embassy in Tokyo. She became a Fellow of the Society of Botanical Artists (SBA), UK in 2009 and exhibited with them on numerous occasions.
About Artist
Mariko Aikawa took up botanical painting in 2004, following a career as a translator / interpreter at an Embassy in Tokyo. She became a Fellow of the Society of Botanical Artists (SBA), UK in 2009 and exhibited with them on numerous occasions.
In 2016 she was awarded a Gold Medal and Best Exhibit at the exhibiton of the Royal Horticultural Society(RHS), UK for the series of paintings of Tillandsia.
Her artwork 'Tillandsia straminea' is held at the collection of the RHS Lindley Library.
In 2021 she was again awarded a Gold Medal at the RHS Botanical Art Show for another series of Tillandsia.
Kei's Bromeriads
She is also a member of the Florilegium Society at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney, Australia and exhibited with them.
She is a member of the Bromeriad Society of Japan as well.
Tillandsia is her favourite. She grows them at home or sources specimen from Kei's Bromeriads, a nursery in Chiba Prefecture, Japan. She is very grateful to them who so kindly offered her many opportunities to draw their Tillandsia. Without their generous cooperation she could not have achieved the series of Tillandsia paintings.
RHS London Botanical Art Show 2016
Best Exhibit memorial stand
相川眞理子 ティランジア
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