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This is the latest works in my solo show in local museum in Japan.

 This is the photo of a group show at the local art museum.  I am going to hold a solo show in the local museum in this summer.

Now one of my paintings is exhibited in a Juried Exhbition.

It is the 28th Annual Juried Exhibition, Pleiades Gallery.

I am so luckey to have my painting selected.

But now I cannot go to NY because I am working in the office.

Hope I can have a solo show in NY again.

I often paint butterfly. A owner of Gallery Shimada, Kobe (it's 7th largest city in Japan) asked me why I paint it persistently. I did not know why.

According to the book "Symbolism", Penguin, butterfly means metamorphosis.

Its larva turns into cocoon and finally into butterfly. When it is lava, it eats vegetables and not favorable to mankind. But when it becomes adult, it eats aphids to protect plants.



It may sound boastful but I… Continue

I have built my web site other than this page. It shows some of my artworks from 1999-2009, and involves blogs in Enlish and Japanese, and also statement. It is http://www.nexyzbb.ne.jp/~kikuko/. I hope you visit it. I would be very happy to have your feedback.

I paint Cherry Blossom every year.

I used to hate it because it never bears fruit, even though Japanese people like it very much.

They like it because flower is very short-lived and it seems it concentrates its highest beauty at its peak.



I like Cherry Blossom with different reason. It blooms every year after a long gloomy winter time.

It gives us hope and encourage us to live.



Recently Japan sent Cherry Trees to… Continue

Hello everyone, I have been showing my painting since 1999 in and out of Japan.
They are fairly abstract, even though I am not aiming at painting abstract.

I made my web site: http://www.nexyzbb.ne.jp/~kikuko/

I would be very happy to have you visit there.

Best,

Kikuko

Hello everyone, I am Kikuko Sakota living in Japan.
I would be very happy to have you all view my page.