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Nira Schwartz graduated the Haifa University, Israel – creative art.
In 1976 moved with her family to Japan for four years. In Japan she met the famous artist Yoshitoshi Mori who kindly invited her to his studio and showed her his fascinating printing technique which he developed out of ”Katazome' – one of the Kimono printing techniques.
Looking for a place to study the traditional katazome technique she was accepted to a class sponsored by Mr. Keisuke Serizawa who carried the honorific title 'National Treasure of Japan.'
At that time Nira started to collect hand made Japanese paper.
The discipline of Katazome together with the unique paper collection which she had, led to developing a unique style of miniature collage.
The miniatures, usually size around 3'x5' are drawn on Ivorine and colored by paper, hundreds of tiny little piece, hand turn or scissors cuts, no paint is used. Nira lives and works in Israel.
Nira is a member of the Israeli Painters and Sculptors Association

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