２０１７年にカンボジアで描いた水彩画です。この時はカンボジアのカンポットで水彩画の個展をして、その時の絵で構成された絵本を作りました。
These watercolors were painted in Cambodia during 2017. They capture the memories of my solo exhibition in Kampot and the picture book that was created from these works.
２０１２年から２０１５年にカンボジアで描いた水彩画です。この頃はプノンペンで建築の設計をしていて、カンボジアは祝日が多いので休みになると海や島にスケッチブックを持って行って絵を描いていました。
These are watercolor paintings I created in Cambodia between 2012 and 2015. At the time, I was working as an architectural designer in Phnom Penh, and since Cambodia has many public holidays, I would take my sketchbook to the sea or islands on my days off to paint.
２０１１年にインドネシア、ラオスで描いた水彩画です。インドネシアはスマトラ島にトバ湖というところがあり、それはとても大きくて綺麗な湖で昔の火山の爆発によって出来たカルデラ湖です。そこにしばらく居たときに結構絵を描いていました。下段のEMERGENCYという絵と、女性の眼の絵はラオスのドンデッドという島で描きました。そのラオスの島で出会った人の導きでその後カンボジアで仕事をして住むこととなりました。
This is a watercolor painting I did in Indonesia and Laos in 2011. There is a place called Lake Toba on the island of Sumatra in Indonesia. It is a very large and beautiful lake, a caldera lake formed by an ancient volcanic eruption. I did quite a lot of paintings while I was there. The paintings on the bottom row, EMERGENCY and the woman’s eye, were painted on an island called Don Det in Laos. Thanks to the guidance of someone I met on the island, I ended up working and living in Cambodia.
２００７年にインド、２００８年にタイで描いた水彩画です。この時はチベットから始まる長旅で、大阪から船で上海へ行き、中国を横断する形で鉄道で西端まで行きそこからバスでチベットに入りました。その後ネパールからインド、東南アジア、オーストラリア、またインド、最後にバリでろうけつ染めのバティックを作るという数年間の旅でした。その時に久しぶりに水彩で好きなように描くことをして、そこからまた絵を描くことを蓄積させて行きました。
During my first trip to Nepal in 2003, I saw many souvenir shops selling Tibetan Buddhist miniature paintings called thangkas. I had a specific motif I wanted to paint, so I went to Pokhara and found a teacher who would teach me thangka and let me paint in the artist’s workshop/shop. I spent about two months there, completing the piece. In the past, mineral pigments were used, but they’re expensive, so acrylic paints are now mainstream. The canvas is made from a regular white sheet-like material, and layers of solid sebum from the yak, a hard, thin, chocolate-colored animal, are dissolved in hot water and applied to create a canvas on which the paint can sit. I went through the process with my teacher, who was still young at the time, and we went on bicycle shopping trips to buy fabric. This was the catalyst that finally brought me back to painting after my long detour into architecture.
