Women in Art 278 Magazine December 2013 | Page 49

american artist Gabriela Horikawa palette knife oil painter with some of the best local artists of the area. I paint mostly with a palette knife which gives my paintings an extraordinary sense of three dimensional relief and texture, the colors are almost broken not mixed completely and my palette varies according to each one of my works. My style is impressionistic and sometimes abstract based on the subject of each painting, and personal memories of each one of the places I paint, which makes each one of them unique. en ART wom I have been surrounded by art and architecture since very young, through a career in Interior Design and Architectural Interiors for more than 25 years. Then something happened when I moved with my family to Italy for a year, it made me realize that all I wanted to do is become an artist. While living in the Liguria region of Moneglia, Italy and traveling around Europe, I was inspired by the surrounding natural landscape, art, and architecture. Soon I was taking several workshops