Painter born in Japan, Masako Villard, instructed in both the Oriental and the Western civilizations, is living in France for ever many years.
In Japan, she studied especially french litterature, piano, calligraphy and ikebana. In Paris, she finished her studies of litteratures and linguistics (Licence ès Lettres and Doctorat de Linguistique).

She have been always drowing and painting, since her very young years, and also travelling frequently all over the world. Her sketchs and her memories are the sources of her pictoral art.
Before the passion for paintings brings her into only artistic activities, she devoted herself for several years to the education of languages and also to carry out researches into theorical linguistics in Paris.

Her themes of paintings are very varied: portraits, flowers, landscapes...One of her favorite themes  is the water's scenes which are full of connotations and fluidly in a fusion of the sky or light with the space-time: sea, rivers, marshs, ponds of  lotus .
Thus she aims to express the universality and the serenity she is feeling in her mind unified by two different cultures because of her very long cultural and living experiences between these cultures.

Her works are characterized by a very individual vision and rich imagination. Imagination and realism live together in her works between lyricism of formes and very nuanced colors. Her oil painting result in the poetical transposition, finely shaded and occasionalyy stylised, of landscapes and flowers.

She is active member of the Société des Artistes Indépendants and of the Fondation Taylor in Paris. She is also associate of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, SNBA, in Paris.