"It's so much fun I can't stop painting" - Nakanishi-san's 90th birthday oil painting exhibition in Ise

[Ise] Tomiko Nakanishi (97), who turns 99 this year by traditional Japanese age reckoning, is holding an exhibition of her oil paintings to celebrate her 99th birthday at the Ise Gakubuchi Gallery Ise (Kamiji-cho, Ise City). The exhibition will run until the 23rd. At the age of 85, Nakanishi first picked up an oil paintbrush at a local senior citizens' art club. Nakanishi says that her paintings were only good enough to be hung at school. After …