Press

"A new form of ‘yinspiration’"
Pique Newsmagazine, November 12, 2009
Artist with Whistler ties holds solo exhibition as part of Cornucopia celebrations
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"Resident Alien: An Interview with Michelle Yamamoto"
Rediviva Magazine
After a lengthy U.S. Visa process complicated by many years of traveling in the Far East, Canadain Artist Michelle Yamamoto has put down creative and faimly roots in Hood River... 
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"A New Rodin in Whistler"
Pique Newsmagazine, November 8, 2007
A FAMILIAR SHAPE: Artist Michelle Yamamoto challenges her paint brush and her confidence to nude self portraits honouring the work of master sculptor August Rodin at ARTrageous... 
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"New wave of art"
Pique Newsmagazine, July 12, 2007
Six months ago, Michelle Yamamoto was content with her illustration pursuits: 18 covers for Pique Newsmagazine, commissioned works for various businesses and organizations, and her own line of Whistler-themed, humourous gift cards ... 
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"ArtWalk opens to great fanfare"
Pique Newsmagazine, July 5, 2007
Art enthusiasts followed the trail of red balloons weaving people in and out of galleries at the grand opening of ArtWalk Friday, June 29... 
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"Yinspiration: Putting ch'i, meditation on canvas"
The Question / Whistler This Week, Thursday June 14, 2007
As a young woman, Michelle Yamamoto ventured through Asia, where she found strength and balance in her spiritual and artistic practices... 
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"When Portraits Inspire Poetry"
Michelle is one artist whose works inspire not only empathy but poetry as well. Her recent watercolor portraits of people, based on photographs she took on a recent visit to Nepal, had a profound effect on poet Alicia Ynez...
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"Spiritual Postcards From Nepal"
The Phiippine Star, Monday April 2. 2001
There are events in a person's life that all add up to become a cosmic network of signals. And it is only inevitable that one should heed these signals, because they will change your fate...
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"An intimate brush with Nepal"
The Manila Times, Monday April 2, 2001
"I have always been daunted by the concept of an exhibitions," she shards in a recent interview. "You have to come to a certain place inside yourself, you have to find that inner peace, to be ready to share." She credits finding her inner peace to her practice of Sheng Zhen Qu Gong (a series of movements and exercises akin to yoga)... 
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