For Our relationship to the land: Art Exhibition Opportunity at Mills Pond Gallery

For Our relationship to the land: Art Exhibition Opportunity at Mills Pond Gallery

This open call for the Mills pond Gallery is about the beauty of the community. I chose the three paintings above and submitted them. These paintings were painted in watercolor. They were painted in a more relaxed and free form, completely different from my previous style. The intention was to simply express nature as we feel it, without being bound by any results or evaluations, through watercolor.

​So I think I can do a lot of work these days. I paint more quickly than before. And I practice expressing the best scenes with watercolors within a limited time.

​This task is very meaningful when painting with watercolors. Because if you paint with watercolors without time constraints, you will keep adding and pursuing perfection. If you do that, you will not be able to fully feel the freedom and beauty of chance that only watercolors have. This year, I will deeply study how to express things through the patterns of chance that watercolors create.

​This is also fundamentally the same as oriental painting. The more I paint with watercolors, the more I find that watercolors are very similar to the techniques and philosophy of oriental painting. I try to remember the techniques of oriental painting that express the deep beauty of objects through the depth of water seeping in and paint.