When in Doubt, Draw: An interview with Divya Marie Kato

Divya Kato is a British-Indian artist and educator who has been working in Japan for over seventeen years and drawing since receiving her first pack of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle crayons.

From an art scholarship to The Royal Masonic School, to a Fine Art degree that led her to Tokyo where she set up her own atelier and drawing school, art has been the golden thread running through her life.  

Divya's work in art education spans preschools to universities, corporations to cross-cultural collaborations such as The Big Draw Japan.  Her work as an artist exists in collections both in Japan and abroad.  

She draws inspiration from the Reggio Emilia approach to childhood education and the key principles of teachers as learners, the hundred languages of children, the classroom as a third teacher and involving the local community. 

Divya loves large-scale, collaborative art projects.  Creating North Peak's first mural was the highlight of her summer and she hopes it'll be the first of many!

During the pandemic, she became a mother of two to Ollie and Georgie: arguably her best creations to date.

Find out more here:

Divya Marie Kato

https://www.divyamariekato.com/

https://www.instagram.com/divyamariekato/?hl=en

Paige Baldwin Ando

https://www.wholeselfcreative.com

https://www.instagram.com/wholeselfcreative

Jordana Matsuda

https://www.instagram.com/jordana_illustration