GAJENDRA SAHU AND CHHATRAPATI BISWAL

SPACE 1 - 2

Exhibition dates : 2 - 14 June 2026
Opening reception : Wed 3 June 2026, 6:00 - 8:30pm

Gajendra Prasad Sahu

Rooted in a lifelong engagement with nature, family, and humanity, this exhibition reflects on the interconnectedness between people and the natural world. Through paintings that move between realism and abstraction, the works draw from close observations of plants, landscapes, and everyday life, transforming these experiences into expressive compositions rich with colour, rhythm, and emotion. The practice embraces nature not only as a visual subject, but as a source of reflection, understanding, and spiritual connection.

Developed over more than four decades of artistic dedication, the exhibition also considers the role and responsibility of the artist within society. Beyond the act of creating, the works speak to the importance of patience, persistence, mindfulness, and the ability of art to inspire positive change. By sharing a lifetime of learning and experience, the artist honours nature lovers, emerging artists, and those who continue to seek meaning, beauty, and connection through creative practice.

CATALOGUE

Chhatrapati Sri Dibyaranjan Biswal

This series reflects a powerful idea: even in the midst of chaos, the art world survives because of those who choose to protect and nurture it. Through recurring motifs inspired by Odisha’s iconic wooden dolls and the symbolic umbrella, the artist portrays a fragile yet unwavering shield.

The umbrella may appear delicate, but its strength lies not in its material, it stands firm because of the resolve of those who hold it. Much like the artists who, with passion and perseverance, continue to safeguard heritage, inspire others, and keep traditions alive.

This body of work is a tribute to those silent protectors, who, against all odds, ensure that art not only survives, but continues to bring light and colour into the world.

CATALOGUE

BELONGING

PROJECT ROOM

Exhibition dates : 2 - 14 June 2026
Opening reception : Wed 3 June 2026, 6:00 - 8:30pm

BELONGING‍ ‍The world of an emotional, spiritual, and creative homecoming

Born from my earlier exhibition, Two Worlds Collide, where identity and culture stood at the core, Belonging is a deeply personal tribute an artist’s return to the heart and soul of their creative path. To belong is to embrace the essence of who we are, both as humanists and as artists. In this exhibition, attendees will journey through each artist’s unique expression of what defines them their artistic voice, their sense of place, and the unseen threads that connect them to their work. Belonging is not just about a physical space; it is an emotional, spiritual, and creative homecoming. For me, belonging is intertwined with nature, an echo of childhood memories the rhythmic patter of footsteps down the long corridors of my Kolkata home, the warmth of the terrace beneath the relentless Indian summer. It is the mist-covered hills of Meghalaya, a place that forever tugs at my soul. My belonging is never static; it shifts and flows, always searching, never contained. It is a longing, a quiet whisper calling me back to the past a past that still lingers, shaping the artist I am today in Melbourne.

This exhibition is an ode to that search, to the moments that anchor us, and to the art that becomes our true home. The participating artists bring forth their own intimate narratives of belonging. Together, these artists weave a collective narrative one of identity, memory, and the eternal search for a place to call home. - Nandita Chakraborty

Participants

Nandita Chakraborty, Nitasha Malik, Rajvi Saria, Shipra Anand and Samaya Tiwary.

Nandita Chakraborty

Nandita Chakraborty, producer of the group show Belonging, is a mixed media artist whose practice explores the intersection of lived reality and the inner landscapes of the neuro-mind. Her work is driven by a desire to visualise how memory, emotion, and perception shape our understanding of self and place. Drawing from both personal and collective experiences, she creates layered compositions that blur the boundaries between the external world and internal cognition.

Using a filmic approach, Chakraborty integrates texture, movement, and visual rhythm to evoke the sensation of thought in motion. Her pieces often feel like fragments of a larger narrative intimate yet universal inviting viewers to engage not just with what is seen, but what is felt and remembered. Through her work, she examines belonging as both a physical and psychological state, revealing the complexity of identity in an ever-shifting world.

Nitasha Malik

Nitasha Malik is a Melbourne-based mixed media artist and founder of Lost Chitrakaar. Her journey into art began not as a career choice, but as a deeply personal response to life’s more challenging moments. What started as a form of emotional release gradually transformed into a full-time practice rooted in healing, reflection, and connection. Her work explores the intersection of vulnerability and strength, often expressed through layered textures, gold detailing, and symbolic forms. Drawing from Indian visual traditions while working within a contemporary framework, her pieces carry both cultural depth and personal narrative. Beyond the canvas, Nitasha extends her practice into community engagement through Saath Circle, creating spaces where art becomes a shared experience one that encourages connection, expression, and a sense of belonging. Her work stands as a reminder that art does not need to be perfected to be powerful. it simply needs to be felt.

Shipra Anand

Shipra Anand is a multidisciplinary artist whose work blends realism with personal interpretation to create artworks rich in emotion and meaning. Her creative journey is shaped by a foundation in traditional art coupled with computer graphics, user experience design, and software systems, alongside a deep passion for visual storytelling. Known for expressive portraiture and evocative landscapes, she explores human emotion through reinterpretation and custom commissions across diverse mediums. A returning exhibiting artist, Shipra draws on the power of Shakti, weaving mythology with contemporary expression. Her painting Shakti was the most Instagrammed work at the 2024 “Two Worlds Collide” exhibition.

Serenity and Storm - The Sacred Feminine Series

This portrait series draws inspiration from Durga and Kali to explore the many dimensions of feminine strength. Each work reflects the coexistence of calm and chaos, nurture and resistance, tenderness and fire that lives within every woman.

These goddesses are reimagined not as distant mythological figures, but as reflections of human emotion and lived experience. They hold the moon and become the fire; they nourish, protect, break silence, and rebuild what must transform. Through symbols of food, flame, motion, and protection, the series celebrates the quiet resilience and fierce courage that women carry every day.

Bold colours and layered symbolism bring together the gentle nurturer, the fearless protector, and the spiritual force of change. This collection is a tribute to the sacred balance of softness and strength—honouring women as guardians, creators, and catalysts of transformation across cultures and generations.

CROSSOVER

SPACE 2

Exhibition dates : 16 June - 28 June 2026

Opening reception : Wed 17 June 2026, 6:00 - 8:30pm

This exhibition brings together eight artists from Chiang Mai University whose diverse practices reflect the richness and strength of contemporary Thai culture. While each artist works in a distinct style and medium, their works are united through a shared connection to Thai identity, tradition, memory, and lived experience.

Through painting, abstraction, symbolism, and material exploration, the exhibition reveals how cultural heritage can be interpreted in both traditional and contemporary forms. The artworks express personal narratives while also reflecting broader social and cultural perspectives rooted in Thailand’s artistic landscape.

Rather than presenting a single definition of Thai art, the exhibition celebrates diversity, individuality, and creative exchange. Together, these artists offer audiences a vibrant dialogue between past and present, local and global influences, highlighting the evolving nature of Thai contemporary art.

Artists featured include Pongdej Chaiyakut, Rossalin Garst, Jan Theo De Vleeschauwer, Korakot Jairak, Rongkakorn Anantasanta, Pongsiri Kiddee, Pison Suwanpakdee, and Wannuchad Likitmarnon.

CRYSTAL WU

SPACE 1

Exhibition dates : 16 - 28 June 2026
Opening reception : Wed 17 June 2026, 6:00 - 8:30pm

Crystal Wu’s paintings explore a quiet tension between control and release. Working instinctively, she builds and disrupts layers of colour, allowing each gesture to remain visible as both action and trace. Her compositions are not fixed images, but moments of movement—where energy gathers, dissolves, and re-forms. Influenced by a sensibility shaped between Eastern restraint and Western abstraction, her work resists narrative, inviting a more intuitive way of seeing. Within these surfaces, softness and intensity coexist, suggesting that strength can emerge not from force, but from presence.

CATALOGUE

BENGAL STORYTELLERS

Project Room

Exhibition dates : 16 June - 28 June 2026

Opening reception : Wed 17 June 2026, 6:00 - 8:30pm

Bangladesh : Moments in Motion

Kazi Mehrab Hossain Opi

“Photography to me is an instrument that allows me to explore around me in a different way, where I can hold the moments that I discover. I am passionate in photographing nature, landscapes, and the diverse wildlife. My photography captures mostly the quiet moments of nature that often go unnoticed. I am interested in stillness, the calm of forests, open fields, rivers, and the silent presence of animals. These moments seem to be simple, but they carry insightful meaning and significant beauty. I observe that nature speaks softly, and photography helps me listen, feel, and understand nature better. My work focuses on unexplored aspects of everyday environments. I try to observe and frame the reality. Photography allows me to explore life, time, and truth through light and space. My photographic efforts shall hopefully allow viewers to slow down, and connect with the natural world in a more thoughtful way.”

Kazi Mehrab Hossain Opi, born in 2001, is a rising photographer from Bangladesh. He is a business graduate from Prime Asia University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. He is passionate about photographing nature, landscapes, and wildlife. His photography work focuses on the quiet and still moments of nature that are often unexplored. In his photography, he explores reality, life, and the natural environment of Bangladesh. Opi believes that nature speaks through silence, and he tries to capture that deep feeling of nature in his images. His photographs depicts the subject-matters which are influenced by patience, observation, and a deep connection with the land. He is determined to be growing as a progressive photographer in terms of capturing the beauty of nature and earth.

Sheikh Mahin Ahmed

“Photography is my passion and the way of seeing the world and everyday life. Through my photographs, I capture Bangladesh’s diverse nature, landscapes, wildlife, cities, and people. The Green beauty and versatile elements in the society of my country are my photographic inspirations. From quiet rivers and green fields to busy streets and urban moments, each place tells a story. I also enjoy photographing people, capturing honest expressions and simple moments that reflect their lives and emotions. Photography helps me observe closely and understand my surroundings. I believe small details often carry powerful stories. My work is not only about presenting the visual beauty of the reality but also about creating connection, capturing memory, and identity. By presenting my work in this exhibition, I hope to share the Bangladesh with greater audiences.”

Sheikh Mahin Ahmed, a young photographer from Bangladesh was born in 2004 in Barishal district of Bangladesh. He is currently continuing his higher studies and pursues deep interest in photography since early days. Mahin enjoys capturing nature, landscapes, wildlife, urban life, and portraits. His photographs mostly reflect everyday moments and real stories from different parts of Bangladesh. He believes photography is a way to observe life closely and express emotions through images. Through his work, Mahin shows the beauty, culture, and diversity in the societies of his country. He is passionate about learning and growing as a photographer and is determined to share his visual stories extensively.

NADA JOVIC

WINDOW ROOM

Exhibition dates. 30 June - 12 July 2026
Opening Reception : Wed 1 July 2026, 6:00 - 8:30 pm

Nada is a tonal impressionist whose practice is grounded in drawing and painting from direct observation. Inspired by the atmosphere and quiet drama of the life studio, she explores innovative ways of presenting life drawings through layered and expressive backgrounds that enhance the presence of the model. Her work reflects a strong sensitivity to tone, light, and mood, creating compositions that feel both intimate and dynamic.

Life drawing remains central to her artistic practice, strengthening observational skills and deepening an understanding of form, movement, and human expression. Through continual experimentation with materials and composition, Nada transforms traditional figure studies into contemporary visual narratives. Her work reflects a commitment to the discipline of drawing while embracing personal interpretation and creative freedom within the process of observation.

GROUP SHOW : Abstract Artists - Still Awake!

Exhibition dates. 30 June - 12 July 2026
Opening Reception : Wed 1 July 2026, 6:00 - 8:30 pm

Presented by Creative Space Hawthorn, an untutored abstract art group based at the Hawthorn Artist Society

In this latest group exhibition “Abstract Artists- Still Awake!” sixteen Melbourne-based artists come together to showcase their most recent creative efforts
We want to share with our audience the abundance of options that are available to all of us to explore our internal and external worlds through our art practice and trust that you will find a wide and lively range of responses within our group to this challenge.

Our world is one where emotion, gesture, form, and colour take centre stage. We celebrate both creativity and expression and hope that our efforts will resonate with gallery visitors.

Artists

Alex Bridge • Amanda Lugg • Cathryn Perazzo • Christine Sender • Devyani Sadalkar • Doc Wight • Fiona Wright • Irene Henning • Kathy Best • Ken Wight • Lynne Kells • Nathan Moshinsky • Paula Reade • Penny Darling • Susan Tait • Traecey Bremner

Alex Bridge

Light, energy, emotion - Alex Bridge is an abstract artist living and practising on Naarm/Melbourne. Her work centres on visual perception and visual sensation. Nature inspired organic shapes and contrasts of colour and texture explore themes of energy and place. Brushstrokes are left raw and immediate, recording the artist's presence in the work.

Wide skies and gnarly textures, reflective light and deep shadows. This body of work explores the energy and experiences of nature. Broad brushstrokes, differing textures and considered colours describe early light to dusk, soft grasses to charred wood. Minimal forms invite a collaboration with the viewer to complete a mood or experience of their own.

Amanda Lugg

This series of pastel coloured works have evolved from a need to challenge myself by moving away from a bold, strong palette. By using the softer palette I am hoping to develop a more subtle feeling within the painting.

I am also addressing within these works, the relationship between angular shapes and rounded shapes. In using the soft colours the clash of these shapes is muted, and so the work demands some shapes to be in a bolder colour. The deeper statement shapes catch the viewers eye and encourage closer examination of the more gently coloured shapes. Overall the aim is to be harmonious and intriguing. In deep contrast, the larger piece is a spring explosion in all its glory. It is not about subtlety, but rather joy and beauty to be easily accessed.

Cathryn Perazzo

Cathryn Perrazo creates abstract paintings that are intuitive, expressive, and deeply personal. Working with layered textures and fluid colour, her practice explores emotion, memory, and the energy of lived experience. Her works move between calm and intensity, allowing forms to emerge naturally through process and experimentation. Through abstraction, she invites viewers to slow down, reflect, and connect with the subtle moods and sensations held within each painting. She enjoys re-working found canvasses to inspire new directions, and at times dovetailing ideas from her poetry writing into her abstract artmaking.

Christine Sender

My work explores abstract interpretations of the vibrant, energetic atmosphere of gathering places squares, cafés, streets, and distant or imagined locations. At times, I am equally drawn to the expressive energy found in nature, seeking to translate these sensations into visual form.

Working in a style often described as lyrical abstraction, I use warm, sensual colour and layered collage to build rich, immersive surfaces. These layers invite the viewer into a personal and intuitive visual experience. Collage plays a central role in my practice, combining found and handmade materials. Some of these are created using a gel plate, contributing texture and complexity. Loose, gestural mark-making with a variety of tools enhances a sense of movement and vitality, while areas of strong contrast introduce moments of drama and focus. Through this process, I aim to intrigue and engage the viewer, evoking curiosity and an emotional resonance that connects with their own memories and experiences.

I am part of a studio community at Creative Space Hawthorn, where an open and supportive environment encourages experimentation and the ongoing development of each artist’s unique voice.

Devyani Sadalkar

This work comes from feeling. Painting becomes a way to find freedom, away from fear, failure, and self-doubt. The process is rooted in play, following what feels instinctively right. Nature is a strong influence. Its colours do not follow rules, yet they exist in harmony. Unlikely combinations sit side by side with ease, holding a quiet boldness. This work learns to dare in a similar way.

The approach is intuitive. It often begins with simple marks, pencil, pastel, or ink and gradually builds. There is no fixed plan, only a response to what emerges. Materials such as acrylics and inks are used freely, guided by the moment. In a world that can feel structured and controlled, this work is an act of letting go. It creates space to breathe, to loosen, and to experience a sense of freedom.

Doc Wight

During my working life in Adelaide I became enamoured with the colourful works of Sydney artist Syd Ball and I acquired two of them. After looking at them for 25 years I was inspired to try abstract art in my retirement and have found it great fun and a most absorbing hobby. Abstract art opened the world of colour and playfulness to me, and finding beauty in all sorts of splashes, dots and squiggles. Sometimes I paint absurd forms of flowers and pots, but have been inspired by Jackson Pollock and his colleagues. Hope you find something of interest in my work.

Fiona Wright

Fiona Wright is an Australian contemporary artist, based in the country town of Marysville, Victoria. Working in both Acrylics and watercolour on panel board and paper, Fiona’s style is a variation of expressionism and gestural abstraction.

Her work explores and represents an intuitive journey of evolvement and emotion using many layers of paint. The process of using opaque acrylics against thin transparent layers creates a history of colour, shape and texture.  Often are include is the use of permanent graphite pencil, ink or scribing back into the layers. Fiona creates to enjoy the excitement of exploration, to interpret feelings and to get lost in the peaceful flow that comes with a focused art practice.

Irene Henning

I am a self-taught artist based in Melbourne.  I regularly exhibit in group exhibitions, galleries and shows and am a member of the Hawthorn Art Society and Melbourne and Victorian Artists’ Collective (MAVA). I originally spent years as a professional in the workforce where joy was hard to find but I always had a passion for art.  Once I took a different path in life, I was finally able to do something that brings me huge fulfilment  : drawing and painting.

I work with acrylic paints and mixed media.  I am inspired by the freedom and experimentation of abstract art.  Colour is my love and passion and is probably my first consideration when doing a piece.  It can be vibrant or muted or in between, it doesn’t matter which, as long as it lights up something in me.  I build up rich layers and texture, with the aim of adding meaning, mystery and depth.  Bold marks can be my high five - adding vibrancy and movement, energy, and power, and bringing a touch of joy to the painting.  When the piece is finally finished, I truly hope it stirs something in the viewer, that they share my vision and feelings too.

Kathy Best

"I see the world and I paint it" Kathy Best

Kathy creates bold, expressive acrylic abstracts and contemporary paintings based on observation of the world around her. She sometimes paints loosely from reference photos or memory. Other times she lets the paint and marks on the canvas guide her. Kathy’s works explore colour relationships, movement, shapes and layers. Kathy has been painting consistently since 2008 and in 2023 completed a Diploma in Visual Arts.

“Take a look, take a 2nd look and take a longer look – I love putting my work out there.”

Ken Wight

I’m late into art but immediately found that the creative challenge Abstract Expression offered was highly stimulating and satisfying. Over the years I have felt my visual brain become way more engaged and I am constantly rewarded by the little details around me that I previously overlooked. I also love hunting around for different materials in op shops and hard rubbish!

Lynne Kells

My practice uses abstraction to express emotional states that resist attempts at language, shaped in part by living with MS. Working in acrylic and mixed media, I explore colour, texture, and layering through an intuitive, process-led approach, balancing control and spontaneity.

Being nonrepresentational, the paintings remain open inviting viewers to pause, reflect, and find their own connection within the movement, energy, texture and atmosphere of the work. Recent works, created during a period of personal transition, feature dynamic, maze-like structures and layered surfaces reflecting ideas of direction, environment, and the navigation of both physical and emotional space.

Nathan Moshinsky

The practice of abstract painting has given me the opportunity to express myself. I enjoy experimenting with different combinations of mediums.

In my work I seek to express a balance between spontaneity and order.  Sometimes it takes me a long time before I consider that a painting is finished. Sometimes I feel that I could rework a painting indefinitely. However, there is a sense of freedom and discovery which I derive from the creative process. I would like to convey my enjoyment to the viewer.

The use of colour is very important to me. Rather than illustrating a subject, I let colour relationships generate emotional resonance. Also, I try to find a variety of tones, marks and textures, to make a painting more absorbing and interesting. I do not follow rules or formulas and try to rely on my intuition to guide me. I use layers to build up a painting, and after a while an inner conversation between the painting and myself develops, and this guides me in the progress of my work.

Paula Reade

Originally from France and partly self taught, Paula, with thirty years experience in visual art is an artist living and practicing in Narmm Melbourne.

Paula’s work delves in between representational and instinctual abstraction, using acrylic as her main medium. She's a keen observer of social situations which she deconstructs in her daily practice to achieve a more symbolic outcome. Abstraction comes in a natural way with total instinct with large brush strokes and bright hues.

Penny Darling

In an era that can feel dark, I believe that optimism and persistence are vital. This watercolour painting employs vibrant colour and movement to express joy. The simplicity of the composition allows me to focus on unpredictable bleeds as an exercise in trusting the chaos. As the colours flow into one another, they leave watermarks that create a new, cumulative outcome. These works serve as an invitation to contemplate optimism and to find beauty and resilience within the simple things.

Perazzo

She enjoys re-working found canvasses to inspire new directions, and at times dovetailing ideas from her poetry writing into her abstract artmaking.

Susan Tait

Susan Tait is a Naarm/Melbourne born artist and painter whose work centres around gesture and materiality, creating expressive reflections on colour and form. Her early fascination with textile design is evident in her work through the exploration of highly visceral textural layering. Deeply inspired by the raw, harsh beauty of the Australian landscape, Susan uses acrylic paint, oil stick and pencil to create bold and tactile works. Occasionally, fabrics and waxed cotton stitches are also added to further build up the surface. As much about what was covered, as what was left exposed, Susan’s canvases are often painted over many times until very few of the early strokes are visible. This lends an evocative depth to the works achieving a sense of mystery and of weathered, ancient timelessness as Susan continues to experiment, to layer, and interpret the landscape around her.

Traecey Bremner

As an artist I have a natural bias to experience the world through image. Non figurative image presents an opportunity to invent, then push and pull the material until I reach a pleasing outcome. A language of material, shape and surface. Concurrently rich and humble, engineered for strength. It contains and transports; fold, crush or repurpose?

TYRA HUTCHENS

SPACE 2

Exhibition dates : 14 - 26 July 2026
Opening reception : Wed 15 July 2026, 6:00 - 8:30pm

DRONES AND OTHER MYSTERIES  

Tyra Hutchens is a Melbourne-based artist whose paintings explore emotion, memory, and the subtle complexities of everyday life. Working mainly in oil on linen and paper, his practice moves between abstraction and figuration, creating atmospheric works that feel both personal and open to interpretation.

His paintings are built through layered surfaces, soft tonal shifts, and expressive brushwork, capturing moments of stillness, movement, and quiet tension. Rather than telling direct stories, Hutchens creates spaces that suggest fragments of memory and experience, allowing viewers to form their own emotional connections with the work.

Inspired by landscape, human presence, and the changing nature of contemporary life, his practice focuses on mood and feeling as much as image. Through an intuitive approach to painting, Hutchens embraces experimentation and process, using texture, gesture, and colour to create works that are reflective, immersive, and emotionally engaging.

ELIF SEZEN

SPACE 1

Exhibition dates : 14 - 26 July 2026
Opening reception : Wed 15 July 2026, 6:00 - 8:30pm

ATMOSPHERES II 

Elif Sezen’s works from her ongoing series, Presence, explore the interplay of space, colour and light in experimental landscapes that reflect on perception, memory and place. Combining painting, photography and digital media, Elif presents archival metallic prints that consider how light can be observed as symbolic and mystical gateways. In these light-portals colour becomes a subtle energetic force, guiding viewers through states of awareness, contemplation and healing. These specific works draw on various sources of inspiration including ‘quantum entanglement’ and Michel Foucault’s notion of ‘heterotopias’—worlds within worlds— to evoke ethereal, alternate realities that are at once cosmic and deeply introspective.

Her work conjures dreamlike atmospheres—ranging from imagined galaxies and symbolic geometries to surreal, abstract forms—inviting audiences into immersive, otherworldly environments. Although partly reminiscent of nature, these ethereal worlds seek to expand the intangible experience of entering a new space physically, spiritually, psychologically, ontologically and cosmologically.

Elif Sezen is a Melbourne-based multidisciplinary artist, writer/poet. She holds a PhD in Fine Art from Monash. For over a decade, Elif has been investigating possibilities of reconceptualising and poeticising memory traces, existential states and a sense of place through poetry-based installations, photographic and sculptural works, paintings and mixed-media landscapes/mindscapes. Her landscapes explore otherworldly atmospheres with abstract, surreal, ethereal, celestial and psychedelic impressions.

Selected shows include JAHM (Recent acquisitions display-2026), Five Walls (‘Atmospheres’, solo show-2025), MAPh (LOOK! Prize-2025), MAC Yapang (MAC Yapang Art Prize-2025), Project8 Gallery (2024), The National Portrait Gallery Canberra (Darling Portrait Prize-2024), CICA Museum-Korea (2024).

www.elifsezen.com

JOHN MCARTHUR

SPACE 1

Exhibition dates : 14 - 26 July 2026
Opening reception : Wed 15 July 2026, 6:00 - 8:30pm

UNSEEN

Every face tells a story, but the masks we wear tell a much bigger one. Since moving from Australia to Hong Kong in 1999, I have been deeply fascinated by what we show the world versus what we hide. "Unseen" depicts this theatre of identity. The vibrant red cheeks, bold lips, and arched eyebrows of Cantonese Opera inspire it. To capture this theme, I blend Western drawing traditions with Hong Kong's lively local culture. As an artist and calligrapher, I build layered narratives on canvas by fusing torn street advertisements, ink drawings, and paintings into a single image. Ultimately, "Unseen" asks a simple question: what face is hidden and what face is shown? I invite you to look past the heavy painted makeup and discover the quiet truths buried deep beneath the surface.

John McArthur is a contemporary Australian artist base in Hong Kong whose practice explores the relationship between place, memory, and personal experience. Through a thoughtful and expressive visual language, his work reflects a deep engagement with landscape, observation, and storytelling. Drawing inspiration from both natural and lived environments, McArthur creates works that invite reflection and connection, contributing to the ongoing dialogue of contemporary Australian art.

ARION AUSTIN-CROWE

PROJECT ROOM

Exhibition dates : 14 - 26 July 2026
Opening reception : Wed 15 July 2026, 6:00 - 8:30pm

The works on display explore the themes of imagination, aging, childhood and memory. Austin-Crowe’s work focuses more on external, more impersonal perceptions of people and the human condition more so than being a projection of one’s internal state onto their environment.

The works explore how much of the human experience is lived through imagination over body, and how reality is experienced through our own personal lens, be it our memories, our projections of future possibilities or the ruminations of the past. The works highlight the subjectivity of lived and future experience, placing an emphasis on the nature of the mind’s eye in its role in subconsciously dictating our actions.

The exhibition serves as a conversation between the increasing amount of contemplation on how the past or our childhoods could be different, we do, in contrast to the childhood practice of daydreaming of the future we do in a different amount, and how similar yet opposing said activities are, yet they are inseparable from one another.

SHARON WEST

WINDOW ROOM

Exhibition dates : 14 - 26 July 2026
Opening reception : Wed 15 July 2026, 6:00 - 8:30pm

Sharon West's art works playfully reimagine Australian histories through varied mediums including dioramas and paper mache construction. Sustainable materials are employed with paper mache urn bases made from vintage dressmaking tissue. Colourful ink and decorative elements are then applied featuring figures from Australian history including William Buckley and artist Elizabeth Gould, as well as Australian bush folklore legendary subjects such as Bunyips, Drop Bears and Kangarooster. Wall dioramas are constructed using found objects with a painted backdrop referencing museum tableaus and virtines in style.

Mythology and magical realism are also a concern placing European myth into an Indigenous landscape. Colonial explorers are rendered usually within absurdist situations involving dangerous and oversized Antipodean creatures.

ROWENA HANNAN

SPACE 1

Exhibition dates : 28 July - 9 Aug 2026
Opening reception : Wed 29 July 2026, 6:00 - 8:30pm

The haunting sound of gumtrees knocking lazily against each other as the unseen move through the forest. Their presence is felt like water particles floating in the air creating a whispering echo on the foliage. From the beginning of time, these mythical creatures stand in defiance as protectors of the natural world. Hidden from the human eye, Dryads keep watch and lay waiting as old growth forest disappears. They are both warriors and nurturers moving across the forest floor giving breath to the lungs of a troubled earth. Dryads bring life to what seems lost while providing havens for creatures that have lost their habitat due to the fallibility of humanity.

Rowena Hannan has been working as a practicing ceramic artist and teacher for over thirty years. Focusing largely on figurative sculpture, she has exhibited in both solo and group shows throughout this period along with the completion of some large public sculptures which have allowed her to explore a range of other materials beyond clay, such as concrete, bronze and steel. Throughout her years of artistic practice, she is constantly drawn to the narrative in her concepts, and these encompass her love of personal history and storytelling. Rowena taught Visual arts at Firbank Grammar from 1997- 2019 and was Head of Art for 8 years. She was also Head of Visual Arts Korowa Anglican Girls’ School from 2020- 2023. She is now working full time on her art practice. Rowena has been a VCE reviewer of folios around the state of Victoria and has delivered art education papers internationally. In 2019, she was an artist in residence in Vallauris, in the South of France and in Barcelona in 2025. Rowena is a co-author of an award winning VCE textbook for Studio Arts, ‘Artisan’ published by Cambridge Press.

LIMINAL THREADS

SPACE 1 - Side

Exhibition dates : 28 July - 9 Aug 2026
Opening reception : Wed 29 July 2026, 6:00 - 8:30pm

Liminal Threads explores thread as a material, creative method and metaphor; a scaffold and connective force linking place with embodied memory. United through a cartography of pattern, Lucy Buxton and Kylie Walsh present traces of their encounters with Ireland’s landscapes and waterscapes, during their residency at Watershed Studios in Galway in 2025. The two artists are bound by a series of synchronicities - ancestral lines and recalibration after significant shifts - all of which led them to meeting in a fishing shed-converted studio in rural Ireland. Through shared conversations unfolding alongside daily studio rituals and material experimentation, they began to map their creative paths alongside the lively currents of the Abhainn na Gaillimhe (River Corrib). The works presented in Liminal Threads emerged across international waters, life transitions, rupture and renewal, made in the liminal space between who they once were and who they are becoming.

Lucy |

Lucy Buxton is a Naarm-based artist and curator. Working across expanded printmaking, her work explores rivers and creeks as living entities, repositories of memory and regenerative sites. Lucy's work engages with more-than-human knowledges, fostering intimate and embodied encounters with the environmental, social and political nature of water. 

Lucy spent one month at Watershed Studios as part of the first year of her practice-based PhD, where she is researching relationships between play and the ways in which people relate to and care for waterways in urban environments. Through walking, drawing and slow-stitching water patterns into agar agar and gelatine-based bioplastics, she built a living archive of her encounters with the River Corrib. The outcome is a series of relationalities between more-than-human knowledges and the embellishment of human imagination.

Kylie |

Kylie Walsh is a Sydney-born (Garigal country) Canberra-based (Ngunnawal and Ngambri) fibre artist whose practice explores patterns, connections and colour through a hybrid weaving technique. Her work takes the form of geometric fibre 'paintings' that exist between textile and graphic art.

Kylie's residency at Watershed Studios became far more than an artistic endeavour. It provided space to reset, slow down, and reflect on identity, belonging, and ancestral connections, leaving a lasting impact in the months that followed. The work she presents in Liminal Threads traces this journey—from ideas first germinated in the studio overlooking the River Corrib in Galway (Gaillimh), to the refinement of designs during a transformative period spent by the River Derwent in Hobart (nipaluna), and finally to her new home studio in Canberra (Ngunnawal), where both artistic and personal growth coalesced, unifying the work across time and place.

PAUL TURNER AND ROBERT BARTOLO  

SPACE 2

Exhibition dates : 28 July - 9 August 2026
Opening reception : Wed 29 July 2026, 6:00 - 8:30pm

People and Places - Dug out of a rabbit hole.

People and Places - Dug out of a rabbit hole brings together a series of figurative and semi-abstract paintings that examine how people inhabit the spaces of modern life — from quiet suburban corners to imagined cityscapes. Each work captures a moment suspended between familiarity and uncertainty. These scenes feel both intimate and distant, portraying individuals within constructed environments that shape — and are shaped by — their psychology.
The exhibition explores urban psychology, social constructs, and the subtle tension between comfort and dislocation that defines contemporary existence. Landscapes and interiors are rendered as psychological spaces rather than literal ones places where emotion and memory merge with architecture and atmosphere.

This body of work investigates how we locate ourselves emotionally, socially, and physically within the built environments we inhabit. The paintings emerge from everyday observation: commuters lost in thought, quiet suburban streets at dusk, or the luminous afterglow of artificial light. These moments of stillness become mirrors of a broader human condition where comfort coexists with anticipation, and belonging is both fragile and deeply felt.
Each figure, landscape, or fragment of urban scenery is a portrait of a psychological state. Through color, composition, and spatial distortion, I aim to reflect how our environments influence our identities and relationships. The repetition of ordinary settings bus stops, housing estates, roadsides transforms them into emotional landscapes, familiar yet slightly displaced.
Our processess combines figurative precision with abstract intervention, allowing the surface to shift between reality and imagination. This tension mirrors the unstable comfort of modern life: we are always both at home and elsewhere, grounded yet expectant.
Ultimately, it is an exploration of what it means to find or create, a sense of home in a world that is perpetually in motion.

LINDA WEIL

PROJECT ROOM

Exhibition dates : 28 July - 9 August 2026
Opening reception : Wed 29 July 2026, 6:00 - 8:30pm

Our supermarket shelves may sparkle, but behind the shine lurk factory farms, overfished oceans, and plasticwrapped everything. These cheeky, thoughtful drawings are here to gently poke you in the ribs — a reminder that every item you toss into your trolley is a choice that shapes the world. A little food for thought.

LINDA WEIL

WINDOW ROOM

Exhibition dates : 28 July - 9 August 2026
Opening reception : Wed 29 July 2026, 6:00 - 8:30pm

Maiko is a self-taught, Kaurna-based emerging multidisciplinary artist using watercolours, acrylics, mixed media and music. Her practice explores themes of illness, care, culture, place-making and language, shaped deeply by her lived experience with chronic and neurological illnesses and by her perspective as a first-generation immigrant.

Through colour, pattern, mark-making and portraiture, Maiko transforms personal and medical experiences into visual works that invite empathy, connection and healing. Alongside her artistic practice, she works as an intellectual property lawyer in the tech industry, grounding her creative work in a unique intersection of art, culture and advocacy.

ART JAPAN 2026

SPACE 1

Exhibition dates : 6 - 18 October 2026
Opening reception : Wed 7 October 2026, 6:00 - 8:30pm

More than 80 art works will be exhibited include 3D artworks. Each showcases their materials and unique forms of expression. Ranging in genre from pop to modern and everything in between. (oil, watercolor, acrylic, lithograph, CG, ceramics and other) Approximately 41 artists participate. All artworks will come from Japan. Participating in the Melbourne Fringe Festival

Hiroki Maruyama

“Through the depiction of flowers and women I want to explore the mysterious and spiritual world beyond my subjects.” He creates psychological expressionist paintings. Graduated Musashino Art University in Tokyo, Japan. Maruyama's work has been regularly exhibited in the UK, Europ, Taiwan and other countries. Maruyama's work has been regularly exhibited in the UK, France, Switzerland, Croatia, Taiwan and other countries. Participating in the Melbourne Affordable Art Fair

Hoshino Brothers

Hoshino Brothers is a Japanese artist duo, consisting of Suisei Hoshino and Shinwa Hoshino. Inspired by The Barnabas Project by the Fan Brothers, the duo creates one-of-a-kind monster sculptures using ceramics and stone clay. Suisei handles all sculpting — each piece born without sketches. The moment clay is touched, a creature comes to life. No failures exist. Shinwa brings the sculptures to life through vibrant, expressive coloring and painting. Their flagship project, the 1000 Monsters Project, now counts over 700 unique sculptures. Their series include Hoshino Monsters, Fluffy Creepy Land, Mini Monsters (100g clay), and the Hoshino Cat series.Some of these will be exhibited in Melbourne and Brisbane, their work blends the eerie with the gentle — strange creatures that ask for nothing, yet make the world a little softer just by being near.

https://instagram.com/suiseihoshino‍　　‍

https://instagram.com/monsters_laboratory

Makoto Nakane 

“The energy found in the cycles of the natural world, expressed through the brilliance of life. Through motifs including koi carp, butterflies, and birds I depict this energy that is found in all living things, showing their connection to space and life.” She regularly exhibits her works at group exhibitions and art fairs in Japan, USA and Spain. Participating in the Melbourne Affordable art fair.

https://art.libli.co.jp/author/mako@atoe/

Takashi Suzuki 

“I create detailed animal paintings using pencils and a variety of other art materials. I try to include as much detail as possible in my work to bring out my subjects' sense of life. As a result, viewers can get up close and enjoy the detailed depictions of each animal’s fur and the scenery reflected in their eyes, The audience isn’t limited by viewing distance." In 2015, Takashi Suzuki transitioned from photography to painting. He regularly exhibits his works at group exhibitions and art fairs in Japan and the United States.

https://suzuki-art.comhttps://www.instagram.com/wild_pencil0/

Akane Asano

Asano say “I wondered if it would be possible to use visual representations such as light, to express concepts like human emotions, movement and voice vibrations. It has been a journey of trial and error, but finally I think I have succeeded in giving shape to my ideas.”

In addition to Japan, she has exhibited her works in London, Sydney and other places. 

Rieko Kameyama

“Through abstract works and animal-inspired pieces, I create art that resonates with the deeper layers of human experience.”  I am an artist who intuitively captures the movement of light, consciousness, and soul. Through abstract works and animal-inspired pieces, I create art that resonates with the deeper layers of human experience.

https://planouut.stores.jp‍

www.instagram.com/riekokameyama_art

Shuhei Tominaga

Award-winning artist. For over thirty years, Shuhei Tominaga has practiced as an artist and designer, working across a diverse range of creative disciplines including furniture design, interior goods, wooden toys, tableware, and corporate branding. In recent years, the artist has focused on exploring the relationship between humanity's historical legacy and contemporary existence through universal themes such as human expression, inner emotions, contemporary social issues, environmental concerns, and love and peace. 

Graduated in Fine Arts (Painting), TAMA ART UNIVERSITY, Tokyo (1996) Studied furniture design at ISTITUTO EUROPEO DI DESIGN, Italy (1998)

https://www.shuheitominaga.com/https://www.instagram.com/tshuhei/

Akae Saito

"I incorporate classical encaustic wax painting techniques, taking advantage of the translucent quality of this medium to create layered paintings. I paint directly on board, tracing the lines of the wood grain to create shapes. The spaces within the painting shift and change slightly at these lines. A single image takes shape from the accumulation of these fragmented worlds." Graduating from Tsukuba University Graduate School in 2009, Akae Saito has won numerous awards in the United States and Japan. She has shown her work in solo exhibitions and group exhibitions both in Japan and internationally, including in Dubai, the United States and Australia.

https://akae.base.shop

https://www.instagram.com/aka_sai3?igsh=MWJ0Y3R6ZnhzYTZjeQ==

Erika Suzuki

“Theme: "Mass of Life" I express the accumulation of energy inherent in life and its torrential flow through a unique language of "lines." While rooted in illustration, my goal is to create "experiential art" that stirs physical sensations through vision. These powerful brushstrokes depict the very pulse of life—constantly moving, even within a static image.”

Graduated Tokyo Zokei University, Graphic Design Department  

https://erika-suzuki.com/

Kou

Kou say “Wouldn’t it be fun if alongside the photographs of family and friends which line the walls of any house, there were portraits of animals like these ?  This “Animal Portrait” series was begun with this sense of fun. This series is completely different to the landscape works I usually create and so I’ve used the pen-name “Kou” when presenting them.” Kou’s work has been exhibited in London, Paris and Zagreb as well as in Affordable Art Fair in Australia between 2004 and 2013, 2024,2025.

http://kohei.sakura.ne.jp/

Keiko Nogami

“In my works I combine cute cats, depictions of the moon (the full moon, crescent moon, etc.) and the works of Japan’s most prominent novelist Natsume Soseki, author of I Am a Cat. I am always conscious of incorporating the Japanese concept of yohaku or blank space in my work.”

Keiko Nogami started studying calligraphy at the age of nine. Currently, she teaches calligraphy in two classrooms, Kobe and Osaka.. Exhibiting her artworks both domestically and internationally, in cities such as New York, Paris, Atlanta and Milan, Nogami opened her first solo exhibition in Taichung, Taiwan. She is the winner of a number of art awards, both in Japan and abroad. 

https://www.instagram.com/keikonogami  

http://facebook.com/keiko.nogami.395

Tomoya Onoue

Individuality is a strong characteristic of my paintings. At first glance, they may seem eccentric and unapproachable, but upon closer inspection, they are quite humorous. I always aim to create heartfelt paintings that evoke something with an unforgettable Japanese essence. 

Since 2014, he has been exhibiting his works at regular group and solo exhibitions in Japan, New York, Melbourne, Taiwan, London and other locations. It is featured in the American-published Art book "BOOM2022."  

https://onotomo.art

Kyo

“Interesting journeys, cats, boys and girls, fantasy worlds. I hope you feel happy through my paintings.”  

Graduated Osaka Designer’s College & Osaka University of the Arts. She is also a scenario writer on the stage. Since 1994 she began exhibiting at international art exhibition. 

https://www.instagram.com/kyoko.hara.790

Kumiko Misu

“I use a technique called "katazome", a form of traditional Japanese dyeing and weaving used in kimono production. This technique uses stencils carved with original patterns and chemical dyes to create fabric designs. I would be delighted if traditional Japanese techniques such as these continued unabated and spread from Japan to the rest of the world. In addition to dyeing, I am also working hard to expand my creative endeavours into the creation of accessories, clothing, interior items, and more.” Graduated Tokyo Dyeing Art Institute. After working as a designer for her wife's accessories, she now runs her own studio. 

https://www.instagram.com/ateliermissmiss

Shinon

“I love drawing. At the same time, I loved picture books and stories, and I would enter into their worlds, fantasizing. I turned those into drawings. I met many different people, and felt the joy of drawing, which led to the way I express myself today. Please receive that energy.” https://yokoyama240.wixsite.com/coutelasshino-pfhttps://www.instagram.com/shinon.282/

Yodatomo

“I’m attracted to the flow of time, memories, shivers, subtle presences, and the stillness that make it difficult to tell whether a specific image is real or fantasy. I would like to create works that capture the presence of invisible things through ephemeral elements such as white space. I also want to create an experience that provides a place and time for the viewer to stop and calm their minds.”

https://ringobook.wixsite.com/0000https://instagram.com/ringo_book

Mahari

"I call my work ‘Inspirational Art’ because I paint whatever comes to my mind. Above all, I hope that my work reminds audiences of their childlike innocence and makes them feel warm and happy. I’d love it if my work could even be used as healing art." Mahari’s works have been featured in magazines and other publications, and she has exhibited her works mainly in group exhibitions within Japan.

www.instagram.com/mahari333

Cosmore

"Distant space, the boundless expanse beyond. A moment of inspiration, portrayed in pointillist gradations like sand that dances gently when the wind blows. Vibrations become sound, and sound is vibration. It’s silent it, but you can hear it. Clear your mind and listen, see and feel the sounds of geometry. That's the kind of work I create." As a pointillist mandala painter, Cosmore exhibits their work in solo and group exhibitions, also holding various workshops and courses within Japan.

https://www.instagram.com/gallerycosmore?igsh=anoyZzgxMnQ5anhs

https://lit.link/cosmore

Mio Okubo

"I want to take the scenery and the memories that are burned into my eyes and preserve them forever, just as they are. They’re all unique treasures. I used to draw digitally, but after a solo exhibition three years ago, I started working manually with coloured pencils. Coloured pencils are straightforward and unpretentious, and they allow me to draw the lines I imagine. I want to express everything I experience in vivid and lively ways, from the small joys of everyday life to the magnificent scenery I see while travelling.” After graduating from Tama Art University, Mio Okubo has worked as a painting instructor and illustrator. The recipient of numerous awards, her works have been exhibited in Japan, Switzerland, the United States, and other countries. 

https://instagram.com/miookubohttps://miookubo.theshop.jp

Misuzu

Mainly drawing greens at home and nature touched my heart through my travels. Feel so much happiness looking at the plants in my place, because they have the positive vigor that heals and empowers us a lot. It's my pleasure if you could grasp such an atmosphere from my work. 

https://www.instagram.com/michelle214_illustration

Rune

Since 2016 she continues to present her works at numerous exhibitions both locally and internationally. “I always enjoyed drawing since childhood. I often drew the characters and monsters I saw in the video games I played. Now I spend my days producing artworks which I hope will be seen by people who appreciate my fantasy worlds. I believe that the world is made up of both humans and monsters. In my art, I visualize that fantastical world.”  

Maiko Mitsuhashi

“I aim to create works that are visually enjoyable and easy to display. My concept is ‘portrayals of comfortable everyday life’. Due to this universal theme, my work is also popular as a housewarming gift or a present for a loved one. I hope my paintings can help everyone feel cheerful, soothed, and even just a little happier.” Graduating from Yokohama National University of Art and Design in 2014, Maiko Mitsuhashi worked in video production and illustration, before transitioning to a career as a professional artist. She also teaches art and painting to children. Maiko Mitsuhashi has exhibited her work in solo and group exhibitions both in Japan and abroad.

https://bento.me/benibarahttps://instagram.com/benibara_maiko

Takaaki Mano

Since 2006, Takaaki Mano has exhibited at numerous international art fairs and group exhibitions in Basel, London, Paris, Berlin, New York, and other major cities. He has held numerous solo exhibitions in Japan, Berlin, Shanghai, New York, and other cities. In 2025, his work was included in the public collection of THE BANK HATAGO HIKONE hotel in Shiga prefecture, Japan.

http://www.manotakaaki.comhttps://instagram.com/manotakaaki

Miyuki Kizu

"Using historical culture and ritual ceremonies as my themes, I create art installations incorporating objects and prose poetry, with the theme of 'time' accumulated in a particular region." From an early age, Miyuki Kizu was fascinated by monsters, folk tales, folklore, and cultural anthropology. In addition to being a painter, she works as a historical museum guide. Although exhibiting mainly in Japan, Miyuki Kizu has also shown works in LA and Brisbane and has received numerous awards.

https://www.instagram.com/miyuki.kizu?igsh=dGpmbzkzOGRpbHBm&utm_source=qr

Hayato Tominaga

"I paint serene Japanese landscapes using transparent watercolours. I feel that Japan's simple, quiet scenery and soft, humid air go well with the blurring and shading and the gentle impressions that watercolours create. By carefully depicting the beauty hidden in everyday life and in moments of peace I hope to bring healing and abundance to the hearts of the people who see my work." Hayato Tominaga’s works have been exhibited at group exhibitions and art fairs in Japan and overseas.

https://x.com/tommynaga7https://www.instagram.com/tommynaga7/

Mashiro Tanishi

Creating dynamic images of Mount Fuji by hand without a brush, I complete each canvas by adding colours one by one. The incorporation of "motion and stillness" into the production process gives each work its own individual appeal　

Graduated Tokyo Zokei University (Painting Department). After graduating from university, she became an art teacher in high school. After that, she started working as an painter in 2018. She regularly exhibits her works in Japan, Paris and London.　

https://www.tanishimashiro.com/

Sou

He worked as a space designer until 2020. He began working as a painter in 2021. He continues to present his work in Japan and mainly in Italy and Spain.

https://souartist.com/

https://www.instagram.com/sou_yuji/

Shibanao

Award-winning artist, Shibanao is an illustrator and picture book author born and raised in Japan. Graduated School of Art at Joshibi University of Art and Design, specializing in Nihonga. After graduated, she moved to NY, where she studied graphic design and contemporary art under Milton Glaser and Takashi Murakami. 

Her debut picture book, Even Little Ghosts Get Scared, received the Excellence Award at the 10th Picture Book and Children’s Literature Awards̶ the first competition jointly hosted by Toho and Alpha Polis. Focusing primarily on children’s picture books and illustration, she continues to create works that blend warmth, imagination, and a uniquely gentle visual style.

She is a member of both the Society of Illustrators (USA) and the Japan Illustrators Association (JIA).

https://www.shibanao-art.com/english

Hussey

“I usually create works in a fun pop style influenced by American and European culture. Many people go on pilgrimages searching for vintage Japanese pop culture and anime goods, and so I created this piece inspired by that idea of Japan and Japanese culture.” Graduated Musashino Art University. He worked as a show set designer at Tokyo Disneyland. He is currently active as a clay artist and illustrator.

Mari Aoe

"As humans, we choose places, people, and ways of life that make us comfortable. I have also had similar experiences over and over again, experiencing joy, anger, sorrow, happiness, and many other feelings, but I have finally arrived at a place where I resonate with people, animals, plants, and nature. This is where I find happiness, and I express these feelings through the colours and shapes in my work." Marie Aoe graduated from Kyoto Seika University's Department of Western Painting in 1983. She has received numerous awards and is involved in picture book publication. She continues to exhibit her work in solo and group exhibitions throughout Japan.

https://mari-bright.com/https://instagram.com/aoe_mari

Mia Tanabe

Living in Japan, if one ventures out of the city, historical sites like castles, shrines, and temples can be encountered everywhere. The four seasons are also omnipresent, with cherry blossoms in spring, lush mountains in summer, and changing leaves in autumn. In this work I’m recalling and drawing the charm of Japan that sometimes tends to be forgotten. 

Graduated Sophia University & Aichi Sangyo University (Department of Education, Department of Design) and Attendance of F-School of Illustrations in Tokyo. She regularly exhibits her works in Japan, Hong Kong, Australia and other places.

https://www.mtanabe.net/https://www.instagram.com/mia_tanabe

Kei Matsumoto

"I want to create a world where audiences can connect with me and share joy and hope. I paint with the hope that light will warm hearts and the places where my paintings are displayed will be spaces of happiness." Focussing on the theme "paintings that weave happiness," Kei Matsumoto creates narrative paintings which have been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions throughout Japan.

https://kei-matsumoto.com/https://www.instagram.com/kei_atelieropal/

Coyonac

"I paint freely, with rugged individuality and funky playfulness at the core of my work. I’ve been told that I resemble a squirrel, and legend has it that squirrels bring good luck. I'd be happy if my work could form a rainbow in someone's heart." Having studied in a wide range of creative fields, including graphics, web design, video arts, illustration, branding, and sales promotion, Coyonac explores "narratives that resonate with all five senses" through her visual expression. She has exhibited at numerous exhibitions both in domestically in Japan and overseas, winning awards in France and Japan. Coyonac’s works have been published in French art magazines including Republique des Arts.

https://www.instagram.com/mamerock7https://coyonac7.studio.site

Eika Sugiura

After graduating from university, Eika Sugiura has been active as a picture book author and illustrator since 2016. She has released numerous picture books with major Japanese publishers.

https://www.instagram.com/eika_sugiura/https://www.facebook.com/eikasugiura.art

Natsue

Flower and leaf characters that bring happiness. Everyone can live a happy and prosperous life. 

I create works that will bring a smile to as many people as possible, and that is what we do.

http://hanamoji-art.comhttps://www.instagram.com/sekiguchi.natsue/

Pu Kobayashi

"I create artworks based on the fascinating scenery I see when travelling, along with scenes I come across in my everyday life. In my work I value light and shadow, and the atmosphere of a scene. I excel at paintings that have a somewhat retro, empty feel. My works are based on photographs I have taken myself, but my goal is to create something that looks ‘even more real than a photograph.’" Born in 1967, Pu Kobayashi has been creating illustrations and animation since high school. After graduating from graduate school in 1992, he began taking photographs which in turn lead to his current style.

https://x.com/princeeugen2https://www.pixiv.net/users/20904219

Chie Oba

“When I didn't want to meet anyone, I was saved by the strength and beauty of the weeds on the riverbank. When I returned to my childhood and began drawing freely with oil pastels, it freed my body and mind and healed my soul. I draw ‘another world’ hidden within familiar scenery. I hope that my drawings will also bring a quiet confidence and healing to the hearts of the people who see them.”

https://chie-o.blog.jp/‍　　　‍

https://www.instagram.com/chi_pui/

Miki Tomita

“I create artworks that tell stories from my own unique worldview, based on things I sense in my daily life. I hope that audience will enjoy my works in their own way.”

https://www.instgram.com/c5tomita39

Tetsuya Mizuma

The concept is "a faint and tranquil mental landscape. "When I saw the sun floating through the mist while climbing a mountain, I felt a beauty in this fantastical and solitary world. I express the sensations that remain in my memory as mental landscapes. I aim to create paintings that will make the viewer feel calm and peaceful. He has exhibited his work in Japan, the UK, and elsewhere. He has received numerous awards.

https://www.instagram.com/fexx6?igsh=dXFlOHp4dXlubXFm

http://tetsuya-mizuma.jimdofree.com

Emi Kinran Kamataki

I believe my Ikebana and Tea ceremony background has increased my understanding in Japanese art. I love the simple but deep art of Sumi-e because of its tradition and discipline. Yet, my curiosity explores more possibilities over the traditional framework. I’d love to invite viewers to their own journey, just like Sumi-e can stimulate the imagination of the audience. 

Born in Japan, lives & works in Melbourne, Australia. She learnt painting as a young child and calligraphy till 15 years old. In 2005, she started Sumi-e under her master, Kinsui Katori in Tokyo and became Certified Advanced Lecturer of International Sumi-E Association in 2010. Her works are housed and exhibited in USA, UK, Germany, France, Estonia, Chile, China, Singapore, Japan and Australia, as well as given numerous awards in Tokyo. 

www.emikamataki.comhttps://www.instagram.com/emikinran

Shigeru Eguchi

“In pop art it’s possible to use the impossible to express reality. I’d like to continue creating even better artworks for all those people who support me and understand my vision.” Shigeru Eguchi, a graduate of Tama Art University, he continues to exhibit at both solo and group exhibitions. From 2007 he entered the international art market, starting with exhibitions in Australia before moving on to locations such as France, UK, China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. As the winner of a number of major art prizes there is no doubt that he will continue to gain attention from collectors around the world.