Tomoko Arakawa

 

2009 M.F.A.in Nagoya Zokei Graduate School of Art & Design, Oil Painting

2014 “Camino/Kumano Artists Meet the Pilgrimage Roads ”Mie Prefectural Art Museum(Mie.Japan)

2015 “View from afar“ Gallery Garaku (Aichi, Japan)

2016 “Long daytime day“ Omuro private museum (MIe, Japan)

2017 “visible, invisible“　Takahama Kawara Museum(Aichi, Japan)

2017 “I often heard the sound of water.“ Gallery Garaku (Aichi, Japan)

 

I remember the scene, and untie it once.Then I tie the scene up again by joining the colors and shapes. At that moment, this ordinary scene was along with the light, the sound, and my feelings.A lot of information was flowing into it.After five to ten years, my memory faded and my feelings or insidents become vague. When I try to paint the scene now, I do not paint anything except colors and shapes. However even I try hard to erase everything else, I still see something oozing out.That is how I am. I want to see that on my paintings. Everyday, I would like to be watching scenes flowing in front of me that were not beautiful but just ordinary , so that I can paint them in after five to ten years.