Dear visitors, please let me introduce myself to let you find a deeper understanding of the nature of my work.
I was born in 1944, Mie-ken, Japan and in 1954 my family moved to Osaka. From 1963 to 1969. I studied at the Tama University of Art, Faculty of Sculpture, in Tokyo and completed the study with diploma of Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts.
In 1972 I started to work at the Ile-Ife University, Nigeria which was the beginning of my working and travelling around the world. There I took up painting again, as conditions there did not allow me to do sculpturing. Under the tropical light and surrounded with dense greenery, I found the world of colour.
For many years I painted natural forms, like landscapes, humans, animals and plants in classical technique. It refreshed the basics of my drawing techniques of line and perspective which I had learned in a early age. But due to my experience as sculptor, I was no longer satisfied with flat surface. Then, parallel to these motives, I began to create with an idea of 3 dimensional paintings. Technically that did not mean moulding a relief, but rather creating the impression in the viewer of being inside, or going through the painting, rather looking at it from outside.
So there I began, or rather went back to the form of Spherical Dimension that I had used when challenged as a sculptor.
Let me try to explain why I painted the series of “Flight”, “Origin” and Moon and Water?
