bio

長野県生まれ。2011年12月より絵画活動を開始。 主として水墨水彩による内観の抽象表現を追求し、創作行為の根本は内観過程そのものと位置付ける。

一方、音楽CDのカバーや盤面アートやギターのペイントを手掛けるほか、国内外のクリエイターとのコラボレーションを展開し、自己の枠を超えた表現の可能性を模索し続けている。

Born in Nagano, Japan, grew up in a family that loved art. One of her biggest artistic influences was sumi ink painting taught by her grandfather in her infant stage. Ever since she has begun to paint in the end of 2011, she has continued to pursue abstract expression of introspective thoughts and visions, has defined her basis and source of every creative activity as exhaust of introspective perspectives.

At the same time, her art has earned attention from music industry. Her deep love of music has developed herself into making cover art for some record labels in UK, South Africa, Italy, Germany,and more. Also, she has collaborated with photographers, guitar makers, designers and other creators inside and outside of Japan, to explore maximum possibilities and opportunities in her creativity. Her art has been appeared in her solo and group shows in her hometown Nagano and major cities in Japan, Paris, and NY.

statement

絵を描き始めて以来、ずっと私にとって創作とは自分自身の心の奥底を深く深く見つめていく作業であると言えます。 根本的なテーマはいつも自分であり、私の絵はどれも私自身そのものです。 孤独な作業ですが、同時に心を開放することでもあります。

社会環境に囚われることなく、また自身のエゴから解放されるとき、創造性が溢れてくるのを感じます。 内側に集中して自分の世界を手にすることで、心は外に自由に放たれていくのです。

白い紙の上に最初に墨を落とすときは、今を生きるための選択や決断のとき。 それを平穏の中で迎えるときもあれば、恐怖の中で知るときもあります。

…私個人の礎石や根拠はどこにどんな風にあるのか。
…自身の奥底に必然と堆積し続けてきた澱や垢は捨てされるのか、あるいは再生開花するものなのか。
…この痛みは、迷いは、私をどう生かしてくれるのか。

そんな風に問いながら心を掻き取り、筆が走るごとに吐き出された絵はすべて、紙や墨、絵具との調和によって生まれた、その時々の私の姿です。

Ever since I have begun to draw a picture, my creation has been all about looking deep down inside me. Underlying themes are always myself, all of my works are me myself. It might sound lonely, but at the same time, it is about releasing my mind. When I free myself from my ego without being owned by the social environment I am in, I can feel that my creativity opens up and springs. By focusing into inside of my mind and owning my world, my heart opens freely.

Dropping the first drip of ink on the white paper means making a choice or decision of my life in that moment. The moment could arrive in calmness, sometimes in fear.

I ask myself;
... Where and how are my foundation and basis?
... Will the dirt stuck deep inside me be thrown away or transform to bloom?
... How do the pain and uncertainness make me alive?

Every moment I scratch my heart and stroke a brush asking that way, the pictures are exhaled, which all are portrait of myself captured in each moment harmonized with paper, sumi ink, and paints.

awards

• Sandro Botticelli Prize 2015

review

彼女の作品が水墨画がもつ普遍的なアカデミックなイメージより、現代アート寄りなのは、精神性の追求、絵画の分析から成り立っているものでは無く、むしろそれらを隠す作業に徹しているからだと思う。 静と動の両極面を持つというよりは、その中間に身を置き、どの感情の分類にもあてはまらない感情を表現している印象を与える。

アートスペース FLATFILE オーナー
モリヤ コウジ

Immortali visioni di Kae Seak ci appaiono attraverso un informale con dinamismo cromatico che ne svela l'onirico interiore del suo Autore Motivi esistenziali colti dal quotidiano vivere sono interpretati come vaganti sospiri sullo spazio pittorico con energico talento artistico.
L'Artista da rmonia alle forme che assume il colore per cui affiora il compendio della genesi pittorica. Ecco che il flusso della gamma coloristica risulta alla fruizione come aspirazione dell'Anima vincolata al suo spirito inquieto che conduce oltre la dimensione terrena.

Immortals visions of Kae Seak appear to us through an informal chromatic dynamism that reveals the inner dream world of its Author. Reasons existential caught by daily living are interpreted as wandering sighs on the pictorial space with energetic artistic talent. The Artist gives harmony to the forms it takes the color that emerges compendium of the origins of painting. Here's the flow of the range of color is to use as bound to its aspiration Soul restless spirit that takes you beyond the earthly dimension.

Art critic & President of Artistic Association "Il Tempio"
Professor
Anna Francesca Biondolilo