画廊＿澤

Artist Statement

I studied Western art and Japanese art in Kyoto. After moving to the United States, I painted with watercolors for 20 years while working fulltime. Since 1999, I have been using a Wacom tablet and pen as my brush, creating unique combinations of line drawings that balance color and movement. Using the computer screen as a canvas. I spent hundreds of hours adding mathematical and physical concepts to each piece. I explored the limits of everything from thin layers and subtle nuances to bold applications of color and shape. Many of the pieces are created entirely by thousands of layered lines and geometric shapes. The result is an incredible sense of depth and the illusion of creating its own light source. Through the use of patterns of lines, my work inspires a sense of the movement of light, the changing shapes of waves and water ripples, the dance of shadows across a single leaf, or sweeping across a garden of trees and flowers. Wind melodies and rhythms, flying birds, and classical music all find their way into my work. The art fuses complex and often conflicting interplays of emotion and logic to create elegant images with endless variations in line, shape, and color. While the solid composition speaks of stability and tradition, the bold, innovative use of line, color, and movement gives this contemporary work a progressive, cutting-edge feel. The viewer's eye is drawn into its depth by the symphony of color, line and movement, along with the illusions they prompt. This enhances the life and joy of art to be felt through the painting.