Based in Chiba, Japan, Japanese artist Miho Hirano first studied at the Musashino Art University, and began painting professionally soon after her graduation in 2008. Her dreamy oil paintings are inhabited by ephemeral spirits at one with their natural environment, whose hair flows into flowering tree branches or flowing strands of seaweed. She adorns their hair with accessories made of flora and fauna like swarming bees, hummingbirds, and goldfish, each carrying their own weight as elements of beauty and symbols of Hirano’s identity. In essence, each of her paintings represents a world where humans and nature can coexist. In 2016, Hirano exhibits her first major solo show “Beauties of Nature” at Corey Helford Gallery in Los Angeles.