Many visitors to the friendly Ren Bar in east Tokyo made calligraphy and artworks to express their wishes for the new year… here is my fast ink portrait of the famous master!
Tag archives: Japan
Beyond Kyoto on the Nishiyama mountain trail
off the beaten track, drawing through the dense foliage impenetrable undergrowth seeking colour and light blasting – near the magical ponpon yama hills
Odaiba Installation Part 2: Rainbow Bridge
Odaiba Installation Part One: Edge of Tokyo Bay
Back and forward through Gifu and Toyama Ken
Infrastructure out of the urbanscape.. From dinosaurs in Shiragawa to a Tanuki greeting customers in a Masunozushi shop on Route 41 in Toyama…
Remembering the Tohoku Earthquake
All about light silver and cereleum spaces – from the distant spring cumulus two buzzards appear as dots, gently soaring boundlessly circling
Nihon Kai Japan Sea – recent installation images
High Bridges – Walking Drawing Tokyo West from Naka Meguro
along suspended riverblocked by oncoming vertical flyovernanamemeeting high polished walls isolating the residential worldfloating gardens flowing into alloy platforms intertwined shafts, containers hummingneutral perimetersemerging and reshaping the ground and drawing out energy lines overlapping populous spacessuffusedabove a tandem rotor flying heavilyleaden quick descent and dark blue chill moving onundulating and avoiding trafficsoon underground in quiet […]
Touchdown Tokyo 2013
I beamed down into Tokyo towards the end of last month, looking forward to unknown adventures… Halloween was close by and the megacity was dark early but brimming with energy as ever. In the crazy hustle and bustle, there was plenty of sideswerving various characters such as the one above, as well as good friends […]
Exhibiting Drawings at Factory Hanbunko gallery, Takaoka, Japan
I’m really looking forward to exhibiting some drawings at the Factory Hanbunko Gallery in Takaoka, Japan, in November this year. The city is near the Japan Sea in a beautiful area of northern Japan. Looks like a interesting gallery space in a fantastic refurbished old building with contrasting interior whites and blacks and dark wooden […]