Introducing KUBO Osamu, Kirie arts
Mixed Media or collage is a technique that combines cut paper, water color, pastel, dyed hand made paper, cloth patches, sand, and etc. to give rich color and spatial experience. The world of Kubo Osamu offers fresh shapes with extraordinary scale and detail for your enjoyment. Click here>

Takemura Ryoko, The World Sketch Tour:

The most notable feature of Takemura Ryoko's work is, first and foremost, the transparent lightness of colors.
The transparent lightness of her paintings creates "happy atmosphere" that flows out of the canvases as cool and sweet smelling air. If there is such a thing as therapeutic art, this is it.
Compiled in a picture diary format, these pages contain the paintings Takemura Ryoko painted while she was overseas with her husband. Click here>

A Unique Talent in Pottery: The World of NOBI Shigemoto
As a photo journalist, he cut his teeth on the Vietnam War, then made penetrating documentaries on the dark side of 80's American --- violence, poverty, drugs, sex, the wasteland that came at the end of prosperity and freedom. Now, leaving all that behind, Nobi Shigemoto immerses himself in a world of tranquillity, pursuing the art of clay and fire, which was admired by war lords some 400 years ago. Click here>