Annette Makino is in her 8th and final year as an NPA parent and is going to miss the school community.  She is an artist and haiku poet who combines joyful, vibrant paintings with original words. She founded Makino Studios in 2011 to share her work with the world.

Makino paints with sumi ink and Japanese watercolors using bamboo brushes. As is traditional in Asian art, she stamps each painting in red with one of her personal seals.

Much of Makino’s work is inspired by the Japanese tradition of haiga, artwork combined with haiku so the image and words deepen and enrich each other. She also draws on techniques of Japanese woodblock prints and etegami—hand-painted postcards combining words and images.