Miwa Komatsu
I saw this artist, Miwa Komatsu, in honkong 2018. In white stone gallery, her artworks were almost sold out. They are very powerful and rich color and material. Born in Nagano in 1984. In her childhood, Komatsu had close contact with many living natures thanks to the rich natural environment: the experience of being present at their final moment led the artist to form her unique view of life and death , which linked to the peculiar style toward the beauty of death. Komatsu began copperplate동판 engraving after entering Joshibi College of Art and Design. At the age of around 20, the work “ The Fourty- nineth day ” was appraised with its originality and it opened the way to be a professional painter. Starting from copperplate engraving, Komatsu has enlarged her ways of expression to acrylic paintings and even to Arita -porcelain자기 in recent years. She has presented various works adopted themes such as death and the Gods who preside over it, holy beasts, Mononoke (...