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Illustrator | Artist

Kanako Wakabayashi

Email : kanako.fairytaleart@gmail.com

Kanako is an artist and illustrator who creates the gentle world of fairytales and fantasy mainly using watercolour. Her inspiration comes from nature, the spirits inhabiting within it, and also her own imagination and dreams.

Experience

  • 2025Illustrated the picture book 'The Old Forest Path' (by Jamie Catto), published in the UK by Ragged Bears
  • 2023Graduated MA Children's Book Illustration at Cambridge School of Art, Anglia Ruskin Univeristy, UK
  • 2023Exhibited at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair in Italy (Cambridge School of Art – MA Children's Book Illustration showcase booth)
  • 2021Exhibited in a groupd exhibition'We Wish...' Cafe Gallery Plus.M, Yokohama, Japan
  • 2021Exhibited in 'Mystere I' Gallery Art Point, Tokyo
  • 2021Illustratied an e-book 'The Secret Garden' for Yellow Bird Project
  • 2020Three people exhibition`Cuppa tea?`
  • 2020Graduated J. F. Oberlin University, Tokyo
  • 2019Illustrated an e-book `Urashima Taro` for Yellow Bird Project
  • 2018Exhibitied in 'The 25th Anniversary Sesshu International Art Society Exhibition' The National Art Center, Tokyo