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Miyuki Tsugane

Painter

Bio

The artist Miyuki Tsugane was born in Nagano in 1972. Her hometown, Chino has a beautiful nature with a mountain called "Yatsugatake" which shows its chromatic contrast of its sunny days or translunary forests like a painting in Japanese ink on misty days. Thanks to the environment, she, a sensitive small girl, was fostered to be an artist who can describe a subtle change in colours surrounding herself. Fascinated with Japanese tradition and its culture, the interest was cultivated during her teenage years and further developed when she opted to take her Bachelors Degree in Fine Art (Japanese traditional art). After completing her degree, Miyuki put herself in a Japanese cuisine to study more deeply about her country and its climate. While then, she tried to reach to "wabisabi" that is known as a spirit of tea ceremony. Letting people feel some kind of sympathy for things missing, she started to use some garbage like old papers, cans or other materials that had been thrown away by ex-owners. She painted them with beautiful colours or made some sculptures with them and presented them in the exhibitions. She calls those series "SCRAP ART", which was actually what she had been doing from her childhood. "LIFE" is a life-time theme of her artwork. she is working on a series named "Kumaji" and the other one named "cryptocreature". "Kumaji" is about wars and family ties. "Kumaji" is a name of her grandmother's younger brother. He used to be a pilot and died in WWⅡ. He left her family a pile of letters. Miyuki took them over from his father. She use old craft paper which used to belong to a calligraphy artist and copies the sentences from the letters using Japanese ink, try-ing to express family ties and love that were beautiful but ephemeral. In a series named "crypto-creature", she mainly uses only commonplace materials; a piece of paper, watercolours, coloured pencils, and crayons. She just draw something, listening to music. While making "crypto-creature", she tries to think nothing and just move her arms as they feels. That sounds like "accidentally" appeared in front of the artist, but that is what she tried to create. Because all of existence in our world might happen to show up there. It might show up or it might not. All the creatures she creates have bright colours but also somehow, struggling. All are lovable ones like us.

Artworks

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