Upcoming exhibitions
22 → 26 September 2021 / Brussels
Affordable Art Fair
at the Tour & Taxis
address: Avenue du Port 86c, 1000 Brussels, Belgium
Stand: EYE Contemporary Art Gallery
02 → 15 October 2021 /Mantova, Italy
Group exhibition
at MAD Art gallery
address: via Camillo Benso Cavour 59 46100 Mantova, Italy
28 → 31 October 2021 / Amsterdam
Affordable Art Fair
address: De Kromhouthal, Gedempt Hamerkanaal 231,
1021 KP Amsterdam, Netherlands
Stand: EYE Contemporary Art Gallery
11 → 14 November 2021 / Hamburg, Germany
Affordable Art Fair
address: Messeplatz 1, 20357 Hamburg, Germany
Stand: EYE Contemporary Art Gallery
Seasons passing, colors waning and sounds merging towards a renewed harmony have always, across all cultures, been a source both of art inspiration through its myriad of expressions and of deep emotions for souls open to the world’s wonders.
The Japanese love of nature and its manifestations is well recognized.
This style of painting is more demanding than what appears at first glance. An intent gazer must mesh palpable first impressions with subtle hints and allusions, thereby expanding one’s extrinsic perceptive vision, the image within the frame, to the inner self – of both artist and observer - to which the image truly appeals.
Shoko Okumura
Born in Japan in 1983, currently Shoko Okumura lives and works in Milan Italy.
Recipient of a distinguished government scholarship, in 2008 graduates with a Degree in Traditional Japanese Painting at Tokyo University of the Arts. Following her degree and subsequent move to Florence Italy to learn the art of fresco restorations, a newfound understanding of fresco techniques and colors led to experimenting and applying Italian pigments to Japanese painting techniques, which often utilizes metal supports such as gold or silver leaf.
The key aim is to represent the relationship between human beings and nature. Seasons passing, colors waning and sounds merging towards a renewed harmony have always, across all cultures, been a source both of art inspiration through its myriad of expressions and of deep emotions for souls open to the world’s wonders.
This style of painting is more demanding than what appears at first glance. An intent gazer must mesh palpable first impressions with subtle hints and allusions, thereby expanding one’s extrinsic perceptive vision, the image within the frame, to the inner self – of both artist and observer - to which the image truly appeals.
