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Bio

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Ayumi Matsuba was born in Japan.  In 2010, she earned MFA from New York Academy of Art. Her paintings have been exhibited in New York, Miami, and London. Currently, she lives and works in Singapore.

 

Artist statement

 

My inspiration comes from the moments that I feel nature in my everyday life. It can be the moment when I step out of my apartment building to get my groceries and then feel the humid air hit my face. Another time, it’s the moment I see the sky changing its color when I’m walking over an overpass with my kids after I pick them up from their after school activities. Those moments are important in that I feel connected to something bigger than myself. My paintings are inspired by the sceneries, the feeling and the memories that were evoked, the air I felt ― the whole experience of the moments.

They are all loosely representational with many brush marks. I always start the paintings with a rough sketch of things that I felt inspired by. But from a certain point, I ignore the original sketch and paint from my imagination. The process is very fluid and organic. Thus, very often the outcome becomes quite different from the initial image. The objects get fragmented and the lines between them become blurred. This way, I feel that the paintings become the rendition of my inner landscape.