Masako’s original art works
Masako Takamasu is an artist who finds the possibility of creating paintings in Japanese graceful beauty and abstract paintings.
Born in Hirado, Japan which is one of the islands located on the west side of Kyushu. The natural scenery around her was always magnificent and limitless, to which these was the overwhelming presence to stimulate her five senses as the core of her production of paintings. Masako came to produce large size paintings willingly when she turned 15 years old and 2 years later she was endowed with an opportunity to measure communication through colors in the United States.
These experiences greatly influenced her process of producing new paintings. It goes without saying that it did not take a long time to come under an overwhelming influence of abstract paintings in San Francisco, California. During that period, she'd created abstract paintings larger than three feet minimum and expanded to fifteen feet wide.
She felt need of reconfirming Japanese beauty as her own identity through her paintings, she came to find possibility of self-expression between the depth of graceful Japanese beauty and objectivity of plasticity in abstract paintings by working as a florist. She is overwhelmed by the vitality that flowers have and she is touched by the beauty which influences lives. The flower seems to only embody the beauty of living moment by moment without an inferiority complex, a sense of guilt and negativity towards oneself. Yet they gently get close to people’s feelings somehow therefore they are admired.
Thus, because the overwhelming presence of her underlying nature she is stimulated anew, and come to plunge her magnificent imagination into the canvases again. Her passion of painting continues with power of nature.
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- Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance, NoMAA Gallery- 2020, New York, USA
- Brunswick Street Gallery- 2019, Melbourne, Australia
- Alkas Sasebo Music Hall- 2008, Sasebo, Japan
- Fukuoka City Art Museum- 2000, Fukuoka, Japan
- Gallery Monne Porte, Hasami 2007
- Coffee Boeki, Sasebo 2008
- Hirado City Library, Hirado Japan
- Kitagawa General Hospital, Hirado Japan
- Ainosono Kindergarten, Hirado Japan
- Tangible Cultural Property ・ Nagayama Residence / Cafe Akashiya, Hirado Japan
- Restaurant Aozora, Saza Japan
- Restaurant Sakuraya, Sasebo Japan
- Restaurant Ottantotto, Fukuoka Japan
- Flower Design School Kaka, Nagasaki Japan
- Florist Tanpopo, Nagasaki Japan
- Private Residences, multiple locations in Nagasaki, Fukuoka, Tokyo Japan / Ohio, New York, USA
- Art Gallery Artsper- France based online gallery
- Art Curator Japan-Japanese art and culture hub
- Kyoto University of Art and Design- Kyoto Japan - Bachelor of Arts 2018
- Academy of Art University San Francisco- San Francisco California - New Media and Fine Arts 2001-2006
- MAMI Flower Design School- Tokyo, Japan
