Born in Japan, having been brought up by her grandfather who was an award-winning Kimono weaver and artist whose contemporaries included Kenkichi Tomimoto, Shouji Hamada and Keisuke Serizawa, Ricca Kawai was exposed to an artistic environment from an early age.
By living in the countryside, she was deeply influenced by the nature she saw around her and encouraged to find her own way of experiencing it. As a child, she was taught Aikido and Calligraphy and in adulthood she has experienced G Force 2 by flying combat air-craft, climbed mountains in Japan and scuba dived in oceans — through all of which she has developed a heightened understanding of invisible flow of energy.
Her work is in public and private collections worldwide including Neiman-Marcus, USA, Vega Sicilia, Spain, TRINC corporation, Japan, Park Hyatt Hotel Kyoto,Japan.
Photo by Erika Veneziano