Beautiful Indonesian batik by Yuko Nakata

Floral motif. Beautiful Painting on silk, Indonesian batik by Yuko Nakata

Indonesian batik by Yuko Nakata
Born in Sapporo, Hokkaido, Yuko Nakata is a talented artist from Japan. She graduated from the Institute of Fine Arts Junior College, graphic design program in Tokyo. For 13 years she worked as a graphic designer in an advertising campaign. Nakata visited Indonesia for the first time in 1977 and has since started collecting batik fabric and batik pictures. In she 1999, began to study the traditional skills of drawing batik in Bali. Then became a freelance illustrator. She studied traditional drawing skills of batik in Indonesia (Bali), the birthplace of this form of art. Nakata is the author of many books on the technical execution of batik and is constantly engaged in the lessons. As a result, her beautiful art works are the winners of numerous prizes and awards. Yuko Nakata is a member of “Hokkaido Illustrators” and an instructor of Indonesian batik in Sapporo, Japan.