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Japanese housewife wins painting competition after reproducing photo
Midori Yoshino's hobby of collecting Gulf News photographs has won her a Dh3,000 cash prize in a painting competition.
- By Nasheet Jaffer Khan, Community Journalist
- Published: 00:28 April 10, 2008
- Image Credit: Supplied Picture
- It took Yoshino six months to complete the watercolour painting from a Gulf News photograph published in 2005.
Dubai: Midori Yoshino's hobby of collecting Gulf News photographs has won her a Dh3,000 cash prize in a painting competition.
"When I first got a copy of Gulf News ... I could not throw away a single photograph and that turned out to be lucky for me," the Japanese housewife said.
Winner of the top prize at the UAE Social Club/Emirates Trading Establishment art competition 'How Dear You Are My Country', Yoshino's watercolour focuses on a fisherman. It is a reproduction of a Gulf News photograph published on November 4, 2005.
She said: "Japan has no colour in its printed news, except maybe one or two coloured photographs in the sport section. When I first saw Gulf News in 2000, I couldn't take my eyes off it. I had never seen so many colours in my life!"
Eight years on she continues to be amazed. Not a professional artist, Yoshino entered the competition to find a "connection," which she did. She said: "My husband teaches English while my daughters study.
In a way, they are all connected to the UAE. I wasn't. I am now." She chose the image because it spoke volumes. It took her six months to complete the painting.
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