Eika Okamoto is an award-winning artist specializing in botanical art.

She studied basics of drawing at Montgomery College, Maryland,

botanical water color painting at the Royal Botanical Garden Kew, U.K.

and she earned a Certificate in Botanical Art from

the New York Botanical Garden in 2010.

She is a recipient of awards in 2003 and 2004 from

the National Museum of Science in Japan.

Her work has been included exhibited in many national and international exhibitions,

and featured in the book, “Flower Diary” in 2005, and in national newspapers.

In 2008 she illustrated a card game for children to teach flower identification.

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