Life 1 by Yumi Doi
Dimensions: 8″ x 10″
Yumi Doi was born and raised in Tokyo, Japan. She began painting classes as a child
and continued studying oil painting and plaster drawing at the art and cultural center as a teenager. Yumi spent much of her 20’s as an activist in the Japanese feminist movement and moved to the United States while in her 30’s.
In San Francisco, Yumi worked in early digital publishing and design companies for many years. She began painting in watercolor in a class with Wendy Yoshimura, a well-known watercolor artist in the bay Area.
Yumi moved to Hilo, Hawai’i 10 years ago where she has continued artistic pursuits including watercolor classes with installation artist Kari Ukaji, plein air painting from the oil painter Sakiko Sinkai and woodblock printing with Glenn Yamanoha. Both watercolor painting and printmaking are her current passions in life. She especially loves painting animals and portraits of local people. Yumi also writes film reviews for newspapers on the mainland and magazines in Japan.
