Born in Kyoto, Japan, Makiko Nakamura held her third solo exhibition at the Peppercanister Gallery in October 2006 which was a sellout. An abstract painter with an international reputation, Makiko left her homeland a number of years ago to dwell for a time in Paris where she studied printmaking at the l'Atelier Contre Point,Paris (1996) and then in the United States the following year as a visiting artist at the University of Pennsylvania. A special interest in the writings of Samuel Beckett drew her to explore his country of origin and Makiko moved to Dublin in 1999 where she still resides and works to this day.