Where we Meet, 2021, oil on linen, 100 x 75 cm
Informed by personal experiences and my mixed Japanese-British heritage, my practice addresses notions of spirituality, loss, longing and hope.
In the Round, 2020, oil on linen, 100 x 100 cm
In the Round, 2020, oil on linen (detail)
I draw inspiration from nature as well as Japanese and European still life paintings and religious iconography of the 16th-18th century. The works combine the traditional and the contemporary by adopting the techniques of the Old Masters to create paintings from digitally rendered collages.
Narthex i, 2021, oil on linen, 180 x 140 cm
Narthex i, 2021, oil on linen (detail)
My paintings often feature dark, expansive spaces in which subjects are held unfathomably suspended, alluding to the idea of the void and the numinous. More recent sculptures in wax and clay, and installations using paper, rice and soil, are symbolic of legacy, desire and rebirth.
A Memorial to Nothing, 2021, soil, rice, moss, oil on oak sleeper, 170 x 40 x 70 cm
A Memorial to Nothing, 2021, soil, rice, moss, oil on oak sleeper (detail)
Maybe Now, Maybe Never, 2020, looped film
Materially the works are often part of a Western tradition, while conceptually they are rooted in Eastern philosophy and Japanese aesthetic principles. Almost as a metaphor for my mixed-race heritage, the works lie somewhere between; between abstraction and figuration, the real and the virtual, East and West, presence and absence.
Where we Meet, 2021, oil on linen, 100 x 75 cm
Informed by personal experiences and my mixed Japanese-British heritage, my practice addresses notions of spirituality, loss, longing and hope.
In the Round, 2020, oil on linen, 100 x 100 cm
In the Round, 2020, oil on linen (detail)
I draw inspiration from nature as well as Japanese and European still life paintings and religious iconography of the 16th-18th century. The works combine the traditional and the contemporary by adopting the techniques of the Old Masters to create paintings from digitally rendered collages.
Narthex i, 2021, oil on linen, 180 x 140 cm
Narthex i, 2021, oil on linen (detail)
My paintings often feature dark, expansive spaces in which subjects are held unfathomably suspended, alluding to the idea of the void and the numinous. More recent sculptures in wax and clay, and installations using paper, rice and soil, are symbolic of legacy, desire and rebirth.
A Memorial to Nothing, 2021, soil, rice, moss, oil on oak sleeper, 170 x 40 x 70 cm
A Memorial to Nothing, 2021, soil, rice, moss, oil on oak sleeper (detail)
Materially the works are often part of a Western tradition, while conceptually they are rooted in Eastern philosophy and Japanese aesthetic principles. Almost as a metaphor for my mixed-race heritage, the works lie somewhere between; between abstraction and figuration, the real and the virtual, East and West, presence and absence.