Naty Camit Hopewell is a family nurse practitioner who became interested in Chinese Brush Painting in the 1970s. Chinese Brush Painting utilizes different grades of rice paper (sometimes silk), ink, water based pigments and brushes made from a variety of animal hair. The type of hair determines the effect. For example, horse hair produces a "coarse" effect and sheep hair a softer effect. Because of the absorbency of rice paper, one has to learn how to "load" the brush with water, ink or water color to get the desired results. In the 1970s Naty began studying with Kathy Hoy, an artist from Taiwan who had immigrated to the United States. In 1986, her husband Mike was hired to teach at Chinese University of Hong Kong. That is how Naty met Yang Shen-Sum, a well known artist in the East. He was schooled in the Ling-Nan method of painting which incorporates Japanese and western techniques into the traditional Chinese way of painting. The result is a "looser" style of Painting. Shortly after moving back to Hawaiʻi in 2000, Naty and Mike became involved in starting a Federally Qualified Health Center in Kahuku. This became their sole interest for many years until recently when Naty decided it was time to resume painting. Her art has evolved from the more traditional subjects of bamboo and lotus to plants and landscapes that surround her in Hawaiʻi.