Origa is a pen/artistic name of Olga Hooper. She was born in Siberia, Russia, and now lives in Michigan, USA. She is a sumi-e artist, ikebana artist, paints on ceramic, and is a distinguish haiku writer. Origa is an Artist in residence for the "Moonset: Literary Newspaper". Her paintings have been exhibited in Giken Gallery (Japanese Broadcast Corporation) in Tokyo, Japan; in Shiawassee Art Center gallery in Michigan, USA; in the 8th Annual Paitings, Drawings, and Prints Juried International Online Art Exhibition (Nebraska, USA); and others.

Origa's original sumi-e are in private collections in USA, Japan, Russia, France, Australia, New Zealand, Ukraine, Poland, India, Uruguay, England, Canada, Romania, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Kenia, Brazil, Italy, Israel. Her original painting on a shiki-shi board "Early Spring" is is the collection of The Japanese Consul General in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. A print of her sumi-e ahiga "Curious Squirrel" is in the Museum of Art in Constantza, Romania. Origa's sumi-e were used as cover and illustrations in different haiku magazines and anthologies.

Online galleries:

http://www.yessy.com/origahaiku http://hiero.ru/Origa http://www.geocities.com/origaboston

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