Danielle O'Connor Akiyama

The artist remains one the most popular floral and contemporary ❤️ painters on UK gallery wall space, as she enthrals you with imagery of flower heads, trees in full bloom up a mountain or waterfalls pouring off rock faces.

A master of course of 'Sumi-e' Japanese style painting, it is you the viewer who she invites to reflect on the vast emotional content in each limited edition and original painting that Danielle presents.

Feedback we receive suggests that her art has been particularly beneficial to its owners during the lockdowns of the Covid19 crisis, offering hope and drawing you to inspirational mind spaces - August 2021

Danielle spoils you once again with the new 'Danielle O'Connor Akiyama - One - Collection,' four illuminating & beautiful new releases - 24th September 2020

'Stories Of Truth I, II & III' takes us into the world of Pink blossomed trees and upright editions overlooking the sea with pink, blue and yellow background canvases.

'One World,' is a spectacular and larger edition taking us into Danielle's ethereal world, made more lush with her mastery of 'Sumi-e' (Japanese brush stroke painting).

6th March 2020 sees Danielle release her much anticipated new limited editions and the pair have been called the 'Conversations Of Love - collection' : two superb new hand finished canvases: 'The Awakening' and 'Cocktail Hour'; Akiyama spoils us with yet more new colour palettes in these two superb releases, with optional crisp white frames.

For over a decade, Canadian artist Danielle O'Connor Akiyama has dominated the world of collectable floral art in the UK & Worldwide for close to 30 years and has reinterpreted the genre to much acclaim.

Blending her loose style into a new form of narrative impressionism, her art seems to speak to people on a deep emotional level and many are moved by the artist's paintings.

Unsurprising, Danielle comes from a family of artists including both her sisters & mother. Her father, although not an artist, was known for having a loveable creative streak so even she would say her talent was in the genes!

After some illness in her informative years, the artist travelled extensively as soon as she left college and this journey mirrored an inward one for peace and spirituality, inspired by encouraging words from her mother. She found meaning and energy from painting and was moved to paint her own stories onto canvas. It seems only natural that she qualified and became an Art Therapist, encouraging others (as she does herself) to express emotions through art and to begin their own healing journeys.

In the late 1980s she married Japanese actor Dennis & while in Japan studied their Brush painting technique and was a prized student of their famous Nanga School - she finally realised art was her calling. The family, including 2 young children, moved to New York in the 1990s for her husband's career and Danielle was enthused by the energy of the Big Apple art scene; it was here where here that her signature style became fully developed.

Danielle now resides in Toronto, Canada and continues to have sell out exhibitions and appearances worldwide. Her limited edition canvas art is highly collectible, often hand glazed for lush effect, as are her original works of art.