About me

Hiroki  Kawanabe

• Based in Kagoshima , Japan
• Born in 1983
• Painting landscape and abstract by self study

 

"I am Japanese painter"

Hello！everyone. Thank you for coming to my site.

My paintings are ordinary scenes from the ordinary lives of ordinary people like me. So my paintings have the scenes that everyone is familiar with.

Often people say to me "your painting is so simplistic". I think so too. That is because It is very important for me not to over do it. 

In this sense, I use subtraction, not addition, in my drawings.

This can also be seen in the traditional Japanese sense of beauty.
For example, in  painting, Haiku, tea ceremony, architecture, garden design, Zen, and other traditional Japanese aesthetics, there is a simple, subtractive expression that require little explanation.　This spirit is often referred to as "Wabi- Sabi.

 

 

Paintings with little explanation leave room for the viewer's imagination. And what the viewer imagines in his or her mind when looking at the painting is what the artist really painted.

If you look at my painting and you imagine something, or you think of a memorable scene, or even if it is just the movement of the heart ,then that is exactly what I have painted.

So I would be happy to be a painter who can paint in your heart.  I think so.

 

 

It is a very magical feeling when I receive feedback on my paintings.It is like a miracle.

That a picture I painted in Japan, a small island country in a corner of the world, can communicate with the hearts of people living in a foreign land where they don't even speak the same language. It is truly a miracle.

There is a word "En" in Japanese.  Simply put, it is an encounter or connection between you and someone or something.

In japan we use the word "En", it does not just refer to an encounter or connection, but has a special nuances like precious, valuable, important, miraculous.

I am very happy for the "En" with you.

I'm gonna keep painting.

 

Thank you very much for reading.