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. The couple ...

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.

Thumbelina's mother left Ukraine's eastern Donbas region when war broke out in 2022. She found herself on a plane to Japan, having consulted a website helping Ukrainians find housing worldwide.