I'll tell you on my paintings made in 2018.
Lately I've been working with water color. It's an easy and fast tool
that suits me, when my paintings are sketches at this moment. When the
ideas come, I have to put them in memory and have to try whether the
idea works or not? I'm thinking that I am going to paint big paintings
sometimes, when the right moments come.
In January
Two paintings were made, entitled "Life Stream". I
started them previous year, but they were only finished after the New
Year´s Day, so they are here. I also painted two "Life stream"
paintings previous year. This time I wanted to make the paintings a
little more colorful than the previous year.
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Life Stream (1) 40x60cm |
Life Stream (2) 40x60cm |
In spring
I started planning following works. I was making three mermaid sculptures
and they are almost finished. I wanted to make paintings next. It made
sense for me to continue the theme of my old paintings again.
One of them is the Mandala series made with libbons, which I
started in 2004 and continued until 2013. I had made a total of 22 mandala.
When I no longer know what to do in my art or my life, Mandala appears
in my paintings. In other words, I want to paint mandala when I need
a break. It calms my mind and at the same time I can meditate on things.
The second idea was the "Guardian of Life" series,
which I started in 1998 and continued until 2001. In these pictures
babies are also main characters. Baby theme often appears in my art.
I have a clue that I like to paint babies when I feel that some big
change is coming in my art or life. I have made a total of 10 paintings
of it. I had also joined theme of life guardian to the theme of the
ribbon mandala in 2013, but I did not remember it when I was painting
this time. I noticed it only later, when I started to write this text.
The third thought was goddesses. I like to paint sacred characters.
The characters of the guardians, angels, or the goddesses belong to
this group.
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Ribbons
of Lotuses (2) 2008 |
Guardian
of Life (3) 1998 |
Goddess
in Temple 2003 |
In April and May
I started reviewing my old paintings and also drew very rough sketches
for new paintings and I made drawings ready on
other papers. I usually draw on another piece of paper first, and then
I draw the ready drawing on a real paper later. It is a very common
traditional way. I drew two circles with a ribbon and put two female
characters inside them, one of them upside down.
In June
Summer began vacation. I worked as an art teacher then. I had time to
paint in the summer without hurry.
Two Circles Mandalas: First I started with a naked figure in
the same way as in 2004 painting. In these, the characters hold hands
together. The characters were without cloth and also with clothes in
the paintings this time. In my art, people are nude very often. I didn't
want that the age appear, nor the area in my art. Clothes are made by
people. Through them we can see where it was made and when it was. The
advantage of clothes is their much more complex shape and more complicated
color than the naked human figure. In addition, the claims also have
dignity.
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Magic of Looking-Glass 30x40cm |
Day and Night 30x40cm |
Mandala of Two Goddesses 30x40cm |
In July
I made four mandala paintings. The numbers of rings made of the ribbons
grew to three, four, nine and 13.
Three-Circle Mandala: There is a different world inside the
circles. I painted the green mountain and the blue sky in three circles
in Mandala.
Four-Circle Mandala: When I painted a four-circle mandala, different
colors came into the mountains of different circles. Six main colors
of the color circle have been used. Looks very colorful.
Nine-circle Mandala: In it the background landscape didn't need
any more. Just color tone, from light to dark, from colorful to colorless,
fits better with the task. A mandala with a central character pleased
me.
13-Circle Mandala: Here are the a Mandala of 13 circles. Exactly
12 small circles and one big circle in the middle. Inside the big circle,
two characters came upside down and overlapped. This two-headed and
four-handed figure is mystical even to me. When I was planning the colors,
I noticed that the ribbon was not one, but three. So far, I have tried
to draw circles with only one ribbon. So the three-color ribbons was
a coincidence, but I liked it. The colors looks happier, circusy.
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Mandala of Three Goddesses 40x40cm |
Mandala of Four Goddesses 40x40cm |
Mandala of Nine Goddesses 40x40cm |
Soul Sisters40x40cm |
In August
Hands of Goddess: When I painted 13 circles of mandala "Soulu
Sisters", I came up with the idea, "Goddess character can
be place here." When the month changed, I started painting the
Goddess character. This time, she became the Goddess of Thousand Hands,
who saves people from suffering. In East Asia it is a fairly common
figure, although it is a generally feminine male figure. In this picture,
the importance of the ribbon is disappearing behind.
Guardian of Life: In the next painting I combined the ribbon
mandala with the Guardian of Life theme. I drew two pieces of 13 circles
and combined them. The number of ribbons is three, such as 13 circles.
The Guardian of Life is similar to the character of my Maria sculpture.
which I made in the previous year.
Ganesha: Here is "Ganeshan and Me". I have three background
stories on this picture.
The first is my wife's dream. My wife told me about her dream over10
years ago. In her dream, I rode and calmed the raging pink elephant.
That dream remainded in my mind and made me feel like going to make
an elephant someday.
The second is a story in a book that says that God looks at the world
through everyones eyes. God is behind our gaze. When I was thinking
about this thing, my back was warming up like someone behind me hugging
me. I realized that behind this story could be such experience.
The third is the Netflix TV series Sense8, where Indian Indian Kala
recalled her childhood experience. She was perhaps eight years old and
went to the Ganesha festival with her mother. There were lots of people
and many big Ganesha statues drawn by the cart, and there she got lost
and met a boy. The boy took Kala into a big Ganesha statue. And she
saw outside world from inside of the statue. Kala saw the world through
the eyes of Ganesha.
In this picture, the girl is not inside Ganesha but in his lap. And
they look at the world together. When I painted this, I felt warm energy
on my back again as Ganesha or some spirit is hugging me. It was a significant
spiritual experience for me. When I looked at this painting later, a
similar experience happened to me several times.
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Goddess of Hands 40x60cm |
Gardian of Life 40x60cm |
Ganesha and me 40x60cm |
In September the second Thousand Hand
Goddess was made. This time any circle made of ribbon did not come
out. When the image is quite symmetrical, you could call the style of
this painting as a kind of mandala or maybe you don't have to call it
any more.
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Goddess of Thousand Hands 30x40cm |
In October two small paintings, Goddess Playing an Angel
and Goddess Playing a Batterfly, were completed. The "Goddess
of Thousand Hands", painted in September, looked like a butterfly
and also an angel with wings. I developed those ideas forward.
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Goddess Playing an Angel 22x30cm |
Goddess Playing a Batterfly 22x30cm |
In November four small paintigs, Fairy and Flower, Fairy
and Babies, Guardian Angel and I and Joy of Christmas
were completed. The butterfly of the previous month looked like a fairy,
so I made a mind to paint fairies. I painted the fairy with the flower
first and then the fairy with the babies. In the latter, I combined
fairy with "Guardian of Life" theme. The previous month's
"Goddess Playing an Angel" turned into a real angel character
with a girl to protect. Lastly there is a Santa Claus who shares the
joy of Christmas, not Christmas gifts. Black short beard looks handsome.
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Fairy and Flower 22x30cm |
Fairy and Babies 22x30cm |
Guadian Angel and Me 22x30cm |
Joy of Christmas 22x30cm |
In December four small paintings were ready, Swan Lake,
Black Swan, Blue Angel and Me and Green Woman and Me.
The angel's wings reminded me of the swan's wings and it gave me an
idea to connect an angel and a swan. It became Swan Lake. The angel
of Black Swan has no wings anymore, he looks just a man, who support.
If necessary, every person can help others like angels help. The angel
character is an enlightenment assistant in the following Blue Angel.
The green forest spirit also helps enlightenment.
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Swan Lake 22x30cm |
Black Swan 22x30cm |
Blue Angel and Me 22x30cm |
Green Woman and Me 22x30cm |
In the beginning of 2019
In January, I made four paintings.
Motherland and Tree of Life and Fire Peaple: I wanted
to get the power of life for myself from earth, tree and fire.
Ganesha and Us: I wanted to feel the blessing to our marriage
from higher spirit.
Guardian of Life: I wanted to get happier colors, lighter colors
in this than last year's painting.
I have a feeling that I am going to develope paintings with mother earth theme and tree of life theme in the spring. But I don´t know yet, what will phappen.
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Mother Earth and Tree of Life 30x40cm |
Fire Peaple 30x40cm |
Ganesha and Us 40x60cm |
Guardian of Life 40x60cm |
