Art as a Therapy – Beyond the Sorrow

  日本語 It is finally spring. For me, it is time to get ready for spring art shows. I usually enter something that fits the season of the art show. In Japan, cherry blossoms are the first thing that comes to people’s mind when they think of spring.  At this time of the year I always remember and long for the beauty of cherry…

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…