染谷悠子

SOMEYA Yuko

キヨシさんのブーケ

Kiyoshi’s Bouquet

パネルにキャンバス、墨、和紙

Chinese ink and Japanese paper on canvas mounted on wood panel

33.3 x 24.2 cm

2020

©︎Yuko Someya, Courtesy of Tomio Koyama Gallery Photo by Kenji Takahashi

小山登美夫ギャラリーTomio Koyama Gallery

ARTIST INFORMATION

染谷悠子は1980年千葉県生まれ。2004年東京造形大学美術学科絵画専攻卒業、2006年東京藝術大学大学院版画専攻修了。

染谷悠子は身近な風景を、自身の幼少期の思い出、生活の変化から感じ取った死、生、出産、自然など生命の根本とからめて捉え、独自で新たな表現を切り開いているアーティストです。様々な動植物が混在する幻想的な染谷の作品は、現代の花鳥画と言えるかもしれません。

染谷は制作において、まず鉛筆で下絵を綿密に描きます。それを型として着彩した和紙にトレースして線と形をちぎったり切り出したものを、キャンバスに何層も重ね、貼り、画面を構築していきます。そして最後に研ぎあげた鉛筆や墨で描き、くずしながら作品世界を作り上げていきます。

時間を消していくように余白を描き、花が開く音や花びらが落ちる音が聞こえるように表現し、言葉を綴るように作り上げられた作品は、まるで自然を慈しむ一片の詩のようです。

Yuko Someya was born in 1980 in Chiba. She completed her Master’s degree in printmaking at Tokyo University of Arts, the Department of Art, in 2006.

Yuko Someya is an artist who has developed a unique and new style of expression, intertwining familiar landscapes with memories from her own childhood, experiences of life changes, and fundamental aspects of life, such as death, birth, and nature. Her fantastical artworks, where various plants and animals coexist, could be described as contemporary renditions of the traditional bird-and-flower painting.

In her production process, Someya first meticulously sketches with a pencil to create outlines. She then traces these outlines onto Japanese paper (washi), applies color, and cuts out these shapes, layering them multiple times on the canvas to construct the composition. Finally, she completes the artwork by drawing with sharpened pencils or Chinese ink, thus giving rise to the world of the work.

Her works, which incorporate whitespace as if erasing time, and attempt to express sounds like the opening of flowers or the falling of petals, are lyrically crafted in a manner akin to writing a piece of poetry that lovingly depicts nature.