Naoko Matsubara

Naoko Matsubara was born in Kyoto in 1937, studied at the Kyoto Academy of Fine Arts and as a Fulbright scholar at Carnegie Tech, and has worked in Canada since 1972. Celebrated for transforming the woodcut, she has had some 75 solo exhibitions around the world. A 1986 journey to Tibet inspired her 27-print Tibetan Sky series, published by Bayeux Arts with a preface by the Dalai Lama.