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Western Park Apartments - Chieko Lafferty - Mt. Fuji DioramaDescription
When Chieko first saw a AWE exhibit many years ago, she never dreamed that one day she would be looking at her own work here.
Born in Kyoto, Japan, she came to San Francisco in 1978 to study English and met her Scottish husband of thirty years, Jack, in an Embarcadero Center dance hall. Since then, she's had a series of jobs--working in a Japanese restaurant, as a house painter with her husband, and as a bookkeeper.
Chieko has always loved art. A trained accountant, she studied design, textiles and silk screen in Japan and later art for ten years at San Francisco City College. She filled the big Victorian flat she and her husband rented with her art, including a 24 x 30 inch painting of bok choy. The 68-year old, who likes to cook and eat, has created a series of paintings focusing on different views of the leafy vegetable.
Chieko is still very happy to be in her AWE class, which she began attending after ten years away from her art. "I have to bring back my own feeling through my art and it's happening," she says with a big smile.
