The Exhibition in Japan was over now

My first solo exhibition in Japan was over now.  I've been back home in the UK and am thinking how wonderful it was.  I would like to say thank you all who involved to the exhibition, no matter how involved, in the UK and in Japan and wherever!

The exhibition was held at moi (the website is written in Japanese) in Kakogawa (Hyogo prefecture, near by Himeji, western part of the main island) 4th - 8th November 2015.

I brought original paper-cut artwork, screen prints and relief prints for the exhibition.

It was a great nice surprise that a lot more people came to see my exhibition everyday than expected.

 I ordered tailor-made solid oak frames to rinkoukan (written in Japanese) for my 16 screen print pieces I created especially for this exhibition. Rinkoukan is a furniture workshop run by a skilled furniture artisan, Mr Kanki, in Wakayama prefecture.  We had communicated via email with a lot of images and drafts, and in the end when I saw the frame after having arrived in Japan, I was really glad what amazing work he had done!

Displaying the original paper-cut artwork wasn't originally my idea but the owner of gallery moi.  I'd like to thank her for giving me her invaluable suggestion!  I added coloured opaque paraffin paper to the black paper artwork, which gave a very different impression to the screen print one.

For example,