I create works focusing on familiar animals and plants such as sparrows. I am attracted to their robust and lovely appearance in the changing seasons. I would like to create paintings that give us a sense of peace and tranquility so that we can stop and take a breath in the midst of our fast-paced modern lives.

Ayaka Umeda pursues new pictorial expression using the traditional dyeing technique of wax dyeing. Wax dyeing is a pattern-dyeing technique in which heated wax is dipped into a brush and allowed to permeate the cloth, thus preventing the dye from entering the permeated area. The reason why Umeda expresses herself through dyeing is because she feels the possibility of expressing a world beyond her imagination. The dye particles that move on the water cannot be completely controlled. Unlike painting, dyeing is said to be something you “become” rather than something you “do,” and it sometimes creates a world that no one could have imagined. Umeda expresses various themes with wax dyeing based on the nature around her which she has been familiar with since her childhood, out of her urge to see the new world created by dyeing. Ayaka Umeda HP https://ayakaumeda-art.com//

Inspiration and miracles are hidden in everyday life. If you look closely, you will realize that the world is full of beauty and things worth painting. In today’s rapidly changing society, I would like to continue to ask myself “Where is the meaning of painting by human hands?

A landscape in which the colors of things change in various ways with the passage of time. I would like to express the air and light of that moment with my impression.   Takuma Kaneko HP http://www.takumakaneko.com/

Hiroki Kishimoto (b. 1982) has developed his own unique world of Japanese-style painting, which is not too much bound by the framework of Japanese-style painting, but also adds the realism of Western-style painting. Since his grandfather was a Japanese painter in the Seiryusha (a Showa-era Japanese painting organization formed in 1929 by Ryuko Kawabata, a Japanese painter), painting with Japanese painting materials from his childhood was a fun and playful time for him, and he naturally became attracted to the world of painting. While using Japanese painting materials, I was also attracted to the centripetal realism of Antonio Lopez Garcia, a favorite of mine when I was a student, and I have somehow come to aim for a new frontier of Japanese painting, which is a fusion of the anti-realism of Kaii Higashiyama and his anthemic imagery. I am often attracted to relief-like structures and alleyways in foreign countries (mainly in Europe), and I depict not only the sce

It depicts the breath of life, interwoven with small animals and plants living in the wind and the big nature. I hope it will spread your imagination as fresh and clean as the latter. Kazuyuki Sudo HP http://sutooo.net/

My aim is to create paintings that incorporate a contemporary perspective by layering images of natural phenomena such as the sky and water over themes that have been depicted since ancient times, such as the moon, flowers, and living creatures. I would like to create works that give a sense of abstraction within the figurative, and through sensory interpretation, give a sense of Japanese aesthetics. Junya Tsubota HP http://www.junyarts.net/

The relationship between a painter and a model is similar to that between a cook and an ingredient. No matter how good a cook you are, if the ingredients are not delicious, you have nothing to show for it. Many women have helped me to become the person I am today. That’s why I want to be able to depict not only the superficial beauty but also the inner strength and kindness of women. I hope that the women depicted in my works will remain with me for a long time to come, and I believe that this will be my way of repaying the women who supported me. (From WORKSOFKENTANAKAJIMA)

No matter how happy or sad we are, no matter what the weather is like, the four seasons always come and go, and the greenery of the trees and plants remind us of the seasons with their gentle flowers. I am always grateful for the unchanging nature of the seasons, which gives me strength and kindness.

Since his solo exhibition in 1996, he has exhibited many works in the motif of camelids. The camel bird is not a motif of his love for animals, but a form of interest and an image in the process of capturing the movement of the space and the air. In 2005, he held his first solo exhibition “Flightless” in New York with the motif of camelids, and at the same time, he aims at the boundary of beauty from a completely different motif as “BROKEN FLOWER” series vol.1. (From Etaro Fukui’s Official Web Site

Animals are not only cute like pets, but their fur, size, gestures, colors, patterns, and bodies suited to their environment and abilities are very interesting. Sometimes I draw the beauty of the animals themselves in the foreground, sometimes I create stories by imagining the animals’ gestures and outfits, and sometimes I draw my own desires (anthropomorphism, etc.) that I think would be interesting if they were like this, which is not possible in reality. I am particularly fond of large, white animals, and I like to draw polar bears, white tigers, and other white variants. I hope to draw such a picture through animals.

A momentary time that does not stay in this world but flickers transiently. A landscape that contains the presence of people and universal light, and that transfers and permeates. There are times when I question what it means to live in such moments. I create my works in the hope that you can feel the precious time in each of the landscapes I express. Yumi Yamazaki HP http://www.yamazakiyumi.com/profile/