The subject of this painting is a girl riding a bicycle along the coastal road in Kamakura. Kamakura is a landscape of Shichirigahama, heading for the beach where there are not many people, and on the beach where she arrives, she is absorbed in collecting seashells and sea glass. The work is finished in a fresh, youthful and invigorating way.
About the technique.
This work is influenced by the pointillism technique advocated by Seurat in the 1880s. He was fascinated by this technique, which gives an impression that is both intellectual and coldly mechanical, and is hard to forget once seen. By juxtaposing acrylic painting materials in dots on the canvas with a thin brush tip without mixing colors, and by mixing colors on the viewer's retina, he aims to create an expression that is complete in the sense of sight. I try to express black (shadow) without using black, and white (light) without using white.