Noriko Watanabe

Japan

Born 1954

Noriko Watanabe was born in Hiroshima, Japan, 1954. She completed her BA at the Osaka University of Arts and worked as a kimono pattern designer in Kyoto. She began teaching botanical art in 2001 at the University of Toronto and won an RHS Gold Medal in 2006. Noriko's work is in the collections of the RHS Lindley Library in London, the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation in Pittsburgh, the Florilegium in Sydney and the Shirley Sherwood Collection.