HIROOMI ITO
A traditional master of Japanese painting, Hiroomi Ito belongs to a small category of Japanese master artists who not only produce their own colour pigments out of natural dyes, but makes the rice paper - the canvas – upon which the artwork is painted on. The delicate paper is stretched and mounted upon a classical, wooden frame prepared by the artist in a chess-board pattern. This process of producing the colours, paper and the wooden canvas is an intricate and important aspect of the creative process.
Ito’s work is a celebration of how God provides for us, in connection to the importance of the family as a social unit for the individual. His images of food on the table are inspired by European 15th century still life paintings of the natural world. Ito depicts dishes typically found in Asia, as symbols of both devotional and secular images.
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