Ayako Toho Makabe  started learning Japanese Calligraphy at the Sekimon Group in Japan from the age of seven years old. Master Japanese calligrapher.  She has been influenced by Western Calligraphy since she was in her early twenties. In 2005 She came to London and studied Western Calligraphy at Roehampton University. Since graduating , she has worked and studied both Japanese and Western calligraphy as a full-time artist living between Tokyo(Japan) and overseas countries.

She has exhibited with the Sekimon Group in Japan,UK and USA.　She is a member of Japanese Calligraphy Guild(Japan),CLAS(UK),SSI(UK),SLLA(London/UK),WCG(Washington/USA),正筆会(Japan).

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