Maki Fukuda was born in Osaka in 1984. She is a young painter and has just graduated from the Graduate School of Tama Art University. She paints scenes of rooms where faint sunlight comes in through a window and there is a chair in a corner with deep touch. Her painting makes us feel dark and secluded space that is full of silence.

Though her paintings are apparently realistic, she is focusing her attention on expresssing the "atmosphere". "atmosphere" is something we could feel when we stand all alone, for example sign of human, distant sound, distant memory, and sense of isolation.

She had painted windows without landscape outside so far and those windows had been shrouded by forlornness or sorrow. But recently windows she has painted have soft light and we could look out at the view slightly. There is damp air in a rainy season and wintry wind there. We could perceive atmosphere inside and outside of the window. This change is a glimpse of her concern with outward due to a changing of heart or loneliness feeling that has became deeper in her mind.

She creates works with setting her heart on grasping and expressing what touch her heartstrings carefully. Her works with profound meanings is rare painting these days.

* The text provided by YOKOI FINE ART.

Period: April 22 - May 21, 2011
Venue: YOKOI FINE ART