1980年江別市生まれ、北海道教育大学札幌校卒。
現在は道展会員。札幌武蔵野美術学院勤務、道新文化センター講師。
道内外の百貨店や各ギャラリー（大丸札幌店、東急百貨店、丸井今井札幌本店など）にて「猫」にまつわる展示を多数開催する日本画家。
作品販売展示を含む猫フェスなどの百貨店催事イベントなどにも積極的に出店をしている。
2021年はこれまでの軌跡ともいえる大規模な個展「谷地元麗子日本画展〔不惑〕猫が為に」を岩見沢市絵画ホール・松島正幸記念館にて開催。
また、2012年に美深町にある曹洞宗聖眼山開原寺にて天井画全48枚制作を監修し、現在は52枚奉納される。他にもオーストラリアから出版された海外向け書籍「FELINE FANTASY」の表紙作品に抜擢されるなど多方面でも活躍。
2015年「第14回サッポロ未来展 in Sakhalin」にて国際交流海外展に関わり、現地でサハリン州立美術館館長賞と、サハリン州政府文化大臣奨励賞を受賞。
2016年11月在ブルガリア日本国大使館主催の日本画展に出展。2017年札幌市児童福祉センターへ作品寄贈されている。
2020年に教室展「猫はじめ」を主宰し、以降毎年「日本画で猫を描く」作品展を企画。
Reiko Yachimoto,born 1980 in Ebetsu, Sapporo and graduated from Hokkaido University of Education, Sapporo.
Currently a member of the Hokkaido Exhibition.
Worked at Sapporo Musashino Art Academy.
Lecturer at Doshin Culture Centre.
Japanese-style painter who has held numerous exhibitions related to cats in Shopping center department stores and galleries in Hokkaido and abroad (Daimaru Sapporo, Tokyu Department Store, Marui Imai Sapporo Main Store, etc.).
She also actively participates in department stores’ events such as the” Cat Festivals”which include exhibitions of her works for sale.
In 2021, she will hold a large-scale solo exhibition “Reiko Yachimoto Japanese Painting Exhibition [Fuwaku] For Cats” at the Iwamizawa City Picture Hall and the Masayuki Matsushima Memorial Hall, which can be seen as a trace of her past work.
In 2012, she supervised the production of 48 ceiling paintings at the Soto Zen temple Seigenzan Kaihara-ji in the town of Mibuka, where 52 ceiling paintings are currently dedicated. She has also been active in many other fields, including being selected as the cover artwork for the international book ‘FELINE FANTASY’ published in Australia.
In 2015, she was involved in an international exchange overseas exhibition at the “14th Sapporo Future Exhibition in Sakhalin”where she received the Sakhalin State Art Museum Director’s Award and the Sakhalin Oblast Minister of Culture’s Encouragement Award.
In November 2016, she participated in a Japanese painting exhibition organised by the Embassy of Japan in Bulgaria; in 2017, her work was donated to the Sapporo Child Welfare Centre.
In 2020, she organised the classroom exhibition ‘Neko Hajime’ and since then she has organised an annual exhibition of works ‘Painting Cats in Japanese Painting’.