Matsubara Naoko
Japanese, active Canada, born 1937
- Names
Matsubara Naoko
松原直子
- Born
Shikoku 1937
- Active
- Occupation or Type
printmaker
illustrator
writer
- Bio
Born on the island of Shikoku in Japan's Inland Sea, Matsubara grew up in Kyoto and studied design at the Kyoto Academy of Fine Arts. There, an instructor introduced her to printmaking by insisting that students apply their tools directly to the block rather than producing a preliminary sketch. Liberal use of the chisel became a hallmark of her work, a trait further inspired by encounters with Munakata Shikô. After graduation in 1960, Matsubara pursued an MFA at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh. During the ensuing years, she studied at the Royal College of Art in London and worked as an assistant to the woodcut artist and print historian Fritz Eichenberg. Matsubara is active as an artist, book illustrator, and lecturer and writer in both English and Japanese.
- Gender
Female