Coney Island Painting

Chiami Sekine is a professional illustrator and fine artist in New York. Chiami was born and raised in Japan. She began her education in design at the Kanazawa College of Art, Japan. After graduation, she worked as a furniture designer and then moved on to doing illustration and fine art. Chiami received an MFA from the San Francisco Academy of Art University, and studied illustration and fine art. Chiami developed her style combining Japanese pop culture and western abstract painting techniques. Her whimsical paintings of animals and other subjects are shown in many shows all over the United States and Japan.