Tomoko Maruyama: SF BAWJ Featured Artist!
Tomoko Maruyama
In every edition of the San Francisco Bay Area Women’s Journal we feature the artwork of a local artist on our cover. Art enriches and deepens our life experience. And here in the Bay Area, rich with creativity, we are pleased to bring you artwork each month that we hope touches you in a unique way.
Tomoko Maruyama is our featured artist for May. Originally from Japan, Tomoko is a San Francisco based graphic designer. She started her career in Tokyo as a sports teacher for children and seniors.
But she soon realized her real passion and interest was in graphic design. This took her to New York where she studied art and began to develop her unique artistic style!
Tomoko strives to create artwork that evokes feelings of happiness and peace which are a reflection of her warm heart. With a distinctive design style that is warm, positive and soft, she is influenced by the daily experience of the cities that she has lived in including Tokyo, New York and San Francisco.
Her illustration of the “Golden Gate” is a great example of her style!
On the May cover of the San Francisco Bay Area Women’s Journal we featured a piece of her work called appropriately enough “SF”. You can see the cover here.
Prints, Apparel, Greeting Cards and More!
Today her work can be found on adorable baby clothes, t-shirts, greeting cards, wedding invitations and hanging on walls across the world! A favorite illustration has to be “The Painted Ladies”.
Looking at these adorable baby clothes, it’s easy to see why people are effusive in their responses to her work…adorable, so sweet, love the soft colors, breath of fresh air, so happy… are often heard when people see her work.
Her career switch might seem dramatic, but it’s obvious that she has found her true calling and is living her dream!
For a complete listing of retailers who carry Tomoko’s work, click here. You can also buy Tomoko’s work from her Etsy shop and visit her website TomokoMaruyama.com to learn more.
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