Mari Takabayashi

Commission portrait artist, picture book author and illustrator based in Brooklyn, NY

Mari Takabayashi was born in Tokyo. She became a NY resident from 1990 and did more than 50 picture books for Japan, USA, Korea, Taiwan and France. She started doing pet portraits since adopting a black & sesame Shiba Inu named Bella in 2014.

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