2020.
Japan Artist In Residency and Closing Exhibition.
Komerebi
Komorebi is the closing exhibition title for my artist in residency in Itoshima Japan during February 2020.
A series of glass sculptural works were created using various gold leaf, enamel and acrylic paints to share four different environments of Itoshima. Each work shares compositions of abstract forms created using hand made tools built from branches, bark, leaves or fronds collected from the natural environment. Each tool creating its own desirable effect.
To create the size for gilding, I collected rainwater from each environment to use in all works during the residency. Rainwater from Itoshima produced incredibly bright gild.
Using local paints, collected rainwater, up-cycled timber and brushes made from the environment in Japan truly gives these works a strong sense of place. With close to all materials used being from Itoshima, these works share so much about the peninsula.
Komorebi Three
23k Gold, 12k White Gold, Acrylic, and enamel on glass with hand-carved up-cycled Japanese Cedar. 600mm x 220mm.
Water gilded using rainwater collected in Itoshima. Painted using various hand made tools including Split Japanese Maple Bark, Bamboo stem brush, Japanese Black Pine Needle Brushes, Dwarf Pine Bush Brush along with habitual art brushes.
Komorebi Two
23k Red Gold, 12k White Gold, Acrylic, and enamel on glass with hand-carved upcycled Japanese Cedar. 600mm x 220mm.
Water gilded using rainwater collected in Itoshima, Japan during my artist in residency. Painted using various hand made tools including Japanese Black Pine Needle Brushes, Japanese Black Pine Cones along with habitual art brushes.
Komorebi One
23k Gold, 12k White Gold, Acrylic, and enamel on glass with hand-carved up-cycled Japanese Cedar. Size 600mm x 220mm.
Water gilded using rainwater collected in Itoshima. Painted using various hand made tools including Bamboo Stem brush, Japanese Dwarf Pine Bush brush and Japanese Pine Cones along with habitual art brushes.
Komorebi Tools
Brushes and various hand made tools created from Bamboo Stem, Bamboo Leaves, Bamboo Husk, Japanese Dwarf Pine Bush, Japanese Pine Needles, Split Japanese Maple Bark and more. All collected from four different environments.
Rain water was also collected from these environments to be used in creating the size for adhering gold leaf to glass using the verre églomisé technique.
Komorebi Mural
Mural installation to accompany the glass works created during my artist in residency. The mural was painted using hand made tools from bamboo leaves, bamboo stems, tree branches and industrial brooms along with habitual rollers and brushes.