Ayako Rokkaku was born in Chiba-shi, a town situated in the 'greater Tokyo' area. She startedto paint in 2002 and quickly started to develop and master her own painting technique. Shenever attended art school but arrived at her distinet painting style completely auto-didactically. Rokkaku's iconic sryle features large, mostly female figures with ambiguous facialexpressions full of character.Vividly colored backgrounds, littered with flowers, tiny figures and rainbow-like smearscompose a colorful dream world. The large eyes and long arms of her characters fit within thelapanese manga style, while the bright colors and compositions are reminiscent of drawingsmade by children. Not coincidentally, as Rokkaku always felt a great affinity for theimagination and lack of rules they embody.

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