About the Artist

Harumi Kano Torres a book illustrator, watercolor and acrylic painter, and digital artist. She studied art, creative writing, and French at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia, and lives in the Atlanta area.

She paints with acrylics in an impressionistic style as she enjoys texture and movement in her art. She also paints mystical watercolors and digital paintings to convey stories’ emotions through color and movement of the illustration’s subject.

Harumi has displayed her paintings and designs at the “Work in Progress” show and “The Next Chapter” senior exhibit at the McEachern Art Center. She has published illustrations, paintings, and writing in the literary magazine The Dulcimer.

She enjoys reading fantasy and magical realism stories. She also likes to take pictures of the clouds, crochet, cook with her family at home, and drink hot teas.