松原 直子
Matsubara graduated from the Kyoto University of Applied Arts in 1960. She then pursued an Master of Fine Arts in the School of Fine Arts at the Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh on a Fulbright Travel Grant, and since then has traveled extensively and taught at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn—a rare distinction for a Japanese woman. She also studied one year at the Royal College of Art, London.
Currently she lives and works in Oakville, Canada. Shrines and temples became one of the major themes of Matsubara’s works. Naoko Matsubara’s style is influenced by her teacher Munakata Shiko (1903–1975), who worked in the mingei (folk art) tradition.
Naoko Matsubara"s sister is the novelist Hisako Matsubara, they collaborated on the publication of Japanese tale Taketori Monogatari in German.
Royal Canadian Academy of Arts]
She was made a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.
