Hitomi Mckenzie is a Porcelain Ceramic Artist, who makes functional shapes and individual pieces. Hitomi was born in Japan where she worked as a fashion designer move to London (UK) in 1996. Studied pottery doing a part time course before achieving BTEC PDD (Professional Development Diploma) in Fine Art Ceramics at South Thames College in the UK. Her intimate relationship with each individual piece of work becoming an extension of how she responds to movement of the wheel and the clay. It is important to her to create communication, a conversation between form and surface. Her works combine that lively tactile quality of hand thrown porcelain, which showing its amazing translucency and looking refreshingly different, contemporary and exciting. She has been living in Vancouver since 2011 and become part of the many Artists at the Mergatroid building in East Vancouver that has an annual open studio, "Eastside Culture Crawl".