exhibition and ceremony

Last Sunday I flew to Tokyo to recieve the SB-Award for my painting "Butterflies".

The Oomori-Bellport was a fantastic location for the exhibition and the exhibition was HUGE. Many entries from Japan, Korea, Germany and France were displayed in the show and I loved to see all the different works there. Here you see me, my Dad and a visitor of the exhibition, who wanted to be on the photo, too.

Here you see my great friend Riyo Satou, who is a brilliant artist. I love her paintings and the way she melds colors and forms together.

And here is Emiko Saito, whom I met first at this exhibition. She is such a lovely and cheerful person. Her painting is full of vibrance and life. We had so much fun, talking to each other :)

Here you see the ceremony... the leaders of the different art associations held speeches and gave the awards to the different artists.

Shirao-sensei, the leader of the "Salon Blanc" association gave the cerificates to the winners and gratulated them. I went up on stage, too, but I need to wait for somebody, who took a photo from me recieving the prize ^^"

So many friends of mine came to see the exhibition and talk with me. It was great to see them all again !!!!!!

Because I was mostly chatting and meeting new and old friends, I was not able to take more pictures, but I will add some more pictures or links later, when I get them :)

And here is my certificate of the award !!! I feel very honored and happy !!!

Now I'm back in Fukuoka. I miss my Dad, who will stay for a few more days in Tokyo, before he flies home to Germany. It was great to have him here. Tsuyoshi is on a businestrip now and I will be back painting to forget about the sudden silence arround me after such an exciting time.

Haven't touched a pen or a brush for about 4 weeks and now I want to get back at it...

Next week I will have a group-exhibition in Fukuoka. I will announce details soon.

Art award and group-exhibition in Tokyo

After the sports fest last week I got a letter... my painting won an art-award at the annual international exhibition in Shinagawa, organized by "Salon Blanc"

http://www.salonblanc.jp/

I'm soooo happy and excited and I will fly to Tokyo to take part in the ceremony.

It is a big honor and I'm glad that my Dad can see this, too.

We will go together on the 17st of October.

The exhibition is from the 14st-19st of October in Shinagawa. I'm looking forward to see all the wonderful paintings from all over the world and see my friends from Germany and Japan, as well as meeting new people and artists there.

I will post more info about the show in my blog next week.

Spider lillies...

This is something, I never was able to see in Hokkaido... Higanbana or Spider lillies.

They grow everywhere here now and in contrast to the yellow hues of rice-fields, Autumn-sun and green grass, it's an amazing sight. Farmers plant them arround the fields as a natural protection agains moles and mice, because their roots are poisenous.

Would love to paint this someday !!! ^_^

...and I'm having some great news about the group-exhibition in Tokyo. I will announce more after I checked my schedule and talked with my Dad.

more photos from Kobe

Here are some more fotos from Kobe... I was most of the time at the gallery, but before it opened every morning, I went for a walk to see a little bit of the town. 

Here is the ropeway to the mountians and it reminded me a lot of Hakodate-yama.

For a few days I also stayed at my penfriend's house, the Yamaguchi-family.

It was so wonderful to see them and we had a lot of fun. Thank you so much for the great time and please visit me in Fukuoka someday !!!

Here is the gallery this time after the set up...

Right now I'm busy, because my father is here to visit us and we are having a great time together :D

Photos from the exhibition

Before the opening yesterday, I took some photos of the exhibition.

It's always a great feeling to see the paintings, which are normally in a folder at home are hanging on a wall.

The opening day was wonderful... so many of my friends came and I also met some new people and had great fun talking with them. THANK YOU everybody for taking time to come and see my paintings there.

And I'm so happy, that I sold 3 paintings already...

And... I got such a wonderful surprise !!! Flowers from my great friends Erika and Udo !!!

I was deeply moved and happy beyond words about this great gift !!!

THANK YOU !!!

Already excited

Yesterday we sent off the frames to the gallery, bought my ticket for the Shinkansen and I'm already overexcited to travel to Kobe, have my exhibition and meet all my wonderful friends there.

And today I got another wonderful surprise: I recieved my members card from Kuronekoyamato-art ^___^ I'm soooo happy that I'm a part in this association now as well !!!

For my upcoming exhibition in Kobe, please check my previous blog-entry at:
http://yuriatakagi.blogspot.com/2010/09/exhibition-in-kobe-23-28-september-2010.html

And here are some more paintings I will exhibit and sell there:

~SOLD~

Exhibition in Kobe 23-28 September 2010

From the 23rd til 28st of September I will have a Solo-exhibition in the "Galerie le port" in Sannomiya, Kobe and I would like to invite everybody, who likes my art to see it.

I will be there, too and I'm already excited about this event.

For further information, please feel free to e-mail me martoo1973@yahoo.de

Here are some of the pieces, which will be for sale there:

****SOLD ****

~SOLD~

***SOLD***

~SOLD~

Hope to see you in Kobe ^__^

ICA 2010

When I came home today I found the catalogue of the ICA 2010 in my mailbox.

The "International Contemporary Arts Exhibition" was in June in Seoul and Cheong Ju in Korea and it was a big event.

Many famous artists from Korea, China, Japan, France, Italy and Germany took part and I'm happy and excited, that my painting was there, too.

Now I can enjoy the catalogue with all those beautiful works... a pity, that I was not able to go, too... well, hopefully someday, when the kids are grown ;)

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Here you see my painting "Butterflies", which took part in the exhibition.

In October it will again be exhibited in Tokyo. I will announce more details later.

News about my upcoming solo-exhibition in the galerie "le Port" in Kobe will follow soon...

Aso Mountains

Another painting inspired by our hiking trip to Aso and Kuju...

done with acrylics, watercolor, pens and airbrush on paper. Size is B4, original available.

Karatsu

Last weekend, we drove to Karatsu and visited a famous spot there, called "Nijinomatsubara" (虹の松原), which means "Rainbow out of a pine beach". The beach has the shape of a rainbow and along that beach is a pine-forest. It belongs to the most beautiful spots in Japan.

We went up to the castle there and enjoyed the view...

After a delicious menue in one of the restaurants there, we drove up to the mountains and went to see the waterfalls there... there are about 8 of them and you can hike all the way beside them. But it was too hot and so we just took a look at some of them.

 

We drove further up in the mountains and enjoyed the view. Here you can still see Nijinomatsubara in the distance.

Up in the mountains, there is a plateau with a shrine small lakes and beautiful nature.

We spotted a lot of mushrooms (those are not edible, but they look beautiful)...

...and enjoyed nature there. It was so much cooler than down at the sea. There were a lot of frogs, some snakes, Dragonflies and Butterflies there.

Someday I want to come here, when the Lotos is at full bloom.

on our way back the kids had fun playing in the river. :D