Orimi Imazato

The rain is beautiful.
Someday I want to be able to paint this rain in a picture.
I still remember thinking this when I was a child, looking out the window at the rain.
In retrospect, that may have been the beginning of my desire for expression.

My mother was an oil painter. Therefore, I natur...

The rain is beautiful.
Someday I want to be able to paint this rain in a picture.
I still remember thinking this when I was a child, looking out the window at the rain.
In retrospect, that may have been the beginning of my desire for expression.

My mother was an oil painter. Therefore, I naturally began to paint from an early age.
My favorite painter when I was a child was Leonardo da Vinci, just like my mother. Therefore, I preferred realistic paintings.
At that time, the more I painted, the better I got at it, and the more praise I received from my family and others, the more attractive art became to me.

Also, my family was not wealthy in Japan, so when I was a child, I had to hold back a lot of things I wanted compared to those around me.
But in painting, it was different. If I painted what I wanted, I could have it.
I tried to get satisfaction from painting.
I could also get things in my paintings that did not actually exist in the world.
It was a picture for me that made me realize my thoughts, “If there’s such a thing in the world.”

But that was not all.
In the summer when I was 10 years old, I came across a painting.
It was a picture that meant resurrection.
A ray of light appearing out of the darkness, that’s how I felt.
That is how my world of art has been since then too.
There is a shadow lurking somewhere, and the scene of breaking free from it came to mind.

Also, as a college student, I became fascinated with contemporary art sculpture and studied sculpture.
Since that time, I have become even more intrigued by the thoughts and ideas that go into artwork, regardless of genre or style.

I like to express psychological.
We cannot turn away from our troubles and suffering and see only hope.
We cannot pretend that there are not there, for there will eat away at our hearts before we know it.
We have to face our troubles and sufferings at some point.
We have to overcome these trials, for only then will we finally be able to reach hope.
And the troubles and sufferings that we have overcome will turn into the strength to help others who face the same obstacles.
I want to be there for and give strength to those who want to overcome barriers. People are not alone.
That is what I want to express in my work.