Emiko Aida is a painter-printmaker living in London. She was born in Jindajii, Tokyo, a town with a Japanese temple dedicated to the Water God. Water is worshipped there, and growing up, Emiko was surrounded by wetlands, streams and rivers. Her family even had a well in their kitchen.

Emiko's artistic outpourings show a quest to return to her roots. Living now in a London she finds arid, her images show a search for a more humid atmosphere. Her watery world, pictured in her etchings and paintings, is a place where she feels at home. She finds water to be the element she most strongly connects to both spiritually and emotionally.

She believes that Art is the rock of her mental stability. She hopes that her works help other people in that way too.