SHUKADO CONTEMPORARY

Q: When did you begin to draw woman portraits?

Nakahara: I have been drawing woman portraits since I was little. However it was until college that I started to aware that it could be a subject of a painting.

Japanese-style painter Okamoto Toko will have a solo exhibition in coming October. She also plans to show a large piece in Art Taipei in November. People are getting to pay attention to her amazing works.

A talk between two Japanese-style painters, Abe Kiyoko and Ikenaga yasunari
Yasunari Ikenaga: As far as I am concerned, girls make themselves look like mature adults once at the age of 22.

Composition- the distance between artist and model
Morimoto: Most of your works focuses on the face or the chest, the composition is very impressive. It was like “wow” the first time I ever saw your work.

It was through a site called All About “Nihonga” (Japanese-style painting) which is no longer updated that I came across Yasunari Ikenaga’s work, or the Yubi-school (Yubi means finger in Japanese), in the feature of promising artists.