Makiko has realised that the roots of her creative expression come from her teenage obsession with reading and drawing ‘Shojo-Manga’, Japanese female manga, something she was deeply ashamed of during adolescence.Her exposure to European art culture, has seen her creativity expand and develop way beyond the world of ‘Shojo-Manga. In this exhibition, she will be showing new brightly coloured paintings exquisitely capturing the proportions and movement of the human body, alongside these will be a selection of drawings and zines in collaboration with British comic artist Jon Chandler.