"Dan is our angel, you know, like Cupid," she said. The couple then had Thumbelina -- not her real name -- whose paintings inspired 32-year-old Isomura.

Amazed to learn they were both artists, the pair kept in touch, and later, through Isomura's introduction, she met her future husband. "Dan is our angel, you know, like Cupid," she said.

Gripping paintbrush and crayon, the artist known as Thumbelina splodges and splats with merry abandon, the one-year-old star of a Tokyo exhibition that goes on way past her bedtime.

Gripping paintbrush and crayon, the artist known as Thumbelina splodges and splats with merry abandon, the one-year-old star of a Tokyo exhibition that goes on way past her bedtime.

A chance seating beside contemporary artist Isomura, who had only boarded due to two delayed flights, changed her life. Amazed to learn they were both artists, the pair kept in touch, and later, ...

Amazed to learn they were both artists, the pair kept in touch, and later, through Isomura’s introduction, she met her future husband. “Dan is our angel, you know, like Cupid,” she said.

Amazed to learn they were both artists, the pair kept in touch, and later, through Isomura's introduction, she met her future husband. "Dan is our angel, you know, like Cupid," she said.

Dan Isomura said Thumbelina's vivid style is 'babyish but mysteriously dexterous' The exhibition, Isomura's first as director of Decameron, opened last month and runs until mid-May.

Amazed to learn they were both artists, the pair kept in touch, and later, through Isomura's introduction, she met her future husband. "Dan is our angel, you know, like Cupid," she said.