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Sweden
Painting, Watercolor on Paper
Size: 12 W x 17 H x 0.1 D in
Hydrangea is a popular flower in Japan. This flower signifies the beginning of the summer season and the beginning of the rainy season, so snails often rest on its leaves My work is inspired by the Japanese ink painting, Sumi-e, which I mastered when I was in Japan for 10 years. Sumi-e is a painting style characterized using black ink (sumi), Asian watercolors and water. Its roots go back to China, from where it came to Japan with Zen Buddhist monks. Signed with red stamp (hanko) with artist's personal Japanese name Seirei Materials used: The artwork was painted with Japanese ink made from the soot of pinewood, Japanese watercolors paint (Kansai) on Japanese rice paper” gasenshi made from the fibers of mulberry, bamboo, and straw.
Painting:Watercolor on Paper
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:12 W x 17 H x 0.1 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:No
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Sweden
I was born in Tbilisi (Georgia) and lived in Moscow (Russia). In the early 2000s I came to Japan, where I spent about 10 years studying Japanese art, particularly, sumi-e ink painting. This style, rooted in Zen Buddhism, fascinated me with its expressive lines and abundance of empty space. It took me years to learn how to express my inner life energy with a brush. Inks applied to rice paper cannot be corrected. It means that a single mistake destroys the whole picture, and you have to start from scratch. I do not follow classical sumi-e. Instead, I combine sumi-e with Western art to adapt the Eastern spirit for the Western viewer. My main themes are flowers, birds and landscapes. I put on paper their images created in my imagination. I make my paintings using authentic Japanese and Chinese materials and tools, such as rice paper, (Xuan, Gasenshi, Washi mulberry paper), Japanese black ink, Japanese watercolor (gansai), and special long-haired brushes. I strive to show the beauty of ink shades, the visual effects of its spreading on the paper and create a "picture of the heart" that felt like poetry.
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