Carol is a self-taught Japanese-Canadian artist has been drawing and painting for as long as she can remember.  Her passion for watercolours led her to hang up her hard hat and steel toed construction boots and embrace art as a full time profession -- a far cry from designing nuclear power stations, highways and bridges and bossing construction crews around!

Carol hails from a family richly endowed in the arts and has been selling paintings through galleries since the early 1990's in Edmonton.

When her children were toddlers she wrote and illustrated several small handsized books to entice them to read. By the time they were in kindergarten they were speed reading much to the astonishment of their teachers! She was soon approached by Tutkam Books to illustrate "The Changeling", which has been on the Edmonton Public Library's recommended reading list for young readers for several years.

She served two years as President of the Federation of Canadian Artists (Edmonton Branch) and is a signature member of the Society of Western Canadian Artists, paints and exhibits with Artists Borealis and Brush With Sunlight (Frank Haddock) and has had several articles published on art and painting techniques in several art periodicals. Over the years she has taught watercolour and/or oils at the Unviversity of Alberta (Extension Dept ELLA), Grant MacEwan Unversity (Minerva), City Arts Centre and privately etc. due to the many requests and has served on jury for art shows and competitions.

Carol's paintings are loose and cover a wide variety of subject matter, but her favourites are watercolour florals and oil landscapes. She can be seen in Edmonton and surrounding areas either painting alla prima or photographing interesting subjects.

Her prize winning watercolours can be found in private and corporate collections across North America and the UK.