World Wide Pressed Flower Guild

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WWPFG 2011 Conference Instructor Biography

Mirian Tatsumi

Mirian Tatsumi was born in Ribeirao Pires, as small city in Sao Paulo State, in 1957. She has received a degree in Social Communication in 1981 and worked many years for Japan Airlines.

She moved to Japan in 1992 with her husband and daughter, where she had lived for almost 8 years in Kashiwa, a city of Chiba Province.

There, at the Fushigina Hana Club, she started an Oshibana (pressed flower) course under the instruction  of Mrs. Shizuka Yamada and completed in 2000.

Still in Japan, she presented her work in several exhibitions. Two important ones were held in Kashiwa No Ha Park, in Chiba (in 1998 and 1999).

Back to Sao Paulo, Brazil, in 2000, she went on developing this art, opened her own school and started to teach.

Since then, besides teaching, she has been introducing new techniques to her work such as soft pastel, which she uses not just as a background but as a part of her pictures as well, with amazing results.

Also, during all these years she has been showing her work in several exhibitions in Sao Paulo and once a year she organizes her school´s one, where all the students have the opportunity to show their own best works. Hundreds of pictures are visited by a large public, who end up  astonished and very interested in this art and its technique.

In 2009, she received an International Award during the Sixth Competition of Pressed Flower Pictures “Exhibition of Creation” in Japan, where she went to receive the award from Mr. Nobuo Suguino himself.

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