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…