about.
Funabashi Studio is a manifestation of my love for creativity, painting, and design. It’s a tribute to the beauty and benefits these art forms bring to our lives.
painting.
My passion lies in creating modern abstract paintings inspired by nature, emotions, and the experiences we encounter as individuals. The paintings represent not just the subject’s physical appearance but a reflection of the feelings and sensations they evoke. My varied techniques involve layering ink, playing with different PH levels of the paper, and varnishes to bring my vision to life. In the future, I hope to expand what’s offered in the shop. I’d love to create fabric collections, printed products, and fine art prints to be sold in shops and galleries.
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My painting style blends modern nature, rhythms, and bashi. Nature offers peace and tranquility, and my paintings are often an ode to the sun, moon, water, and mountains. I simplify the complexities of life through broad strokes and simple shapes, at times creating movements to evoke the intertwined rhythms of our environment and lives.
style.
rhythms.
Layer upon layer, stroke upon stroke, ink glides across the paper. Shifting the paper in my hands, looking for reflections of wet ink, making sure it's dry before adding more and tracing the ink-dried paper with my finger, trying to determine the direction of the future layer, feeling out what resonates. The layers mimic the days: drops offs, walks, berry picking, conversations, painting, strollers, making ink, thrifting for treasure, cooking dinner, one on top of the other, till one day ends and a new one begins.
modern nature.
Being outside, feeling the wind on the face, hearing water rushing, gurgling, roaring, smelling pine trees, and feeling cold, wet sand followed by soft, squishy moss are both intoxicating and calming. When painting, the circles mirror the sun and the moon, and the brush strokes imitate rushing wind, water lapping, the strength of mountains, or the silent paths we take. These are friendly reminders to seek shelter in the beauty where there is none.
bashi.
The movement of brush strokes is evocative of how our stronger emotions turn, change, and alchemize us. Using both hands, dragging a large dry brush across the surface to get just the right amount of lines. Soaked, heavy, wet, bristles, watching it move slowly as the ink lessens to a feather touch, with barely any left.
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