“Inner Voice”

日本語 I got an inspiration to paint this subject when I saw a Bishamonten (Buddhist deity) statue at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. The statue was exhibited with other Buddhist statues in a very dimly lit room. The lighting resulted in a very dramatic shadow, which almost looked like another statue behind the Bishamonten. I was amazed by the contrast between the statue and…

For the Memory of the Visit to Matsushima in 2012

日本語 This paining, “Lost Horizon”, was shown in the 118th Annual Artist Member Show (3/30-4/24) at Rhode Island Watercolor Society. Three years already passed since the 3/11 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. It was right before the 3rd anniversary of the disaster when I started painting it. I felt an urge to paint a landscape in Tohoku (northeastern part of Japan) while I was watching a series of documentary shows of evacuees from Fukushima and…