My monster - Oil & Pastel 24'' x 20''

Introducing us to a world of sensitive movement and empathetic forms, Satomi Nishino works to explore the connection between the body and the mind. Painting on paper or canvas, Nishino works the flat surface with acrylics, building form and texture with her brushstrokes. With this are inks, layered so as to run through the compositions, sinking in with incredible depth or highlighting the crevasses and ridge-tops of worked paint. Her handling of these two very different media is superb, producing extremely delicately executed works which hold immense power and insight.
Nishino confronts the schisms between the mind and the body, the real and surreal or imagined.

Part of the schism manifests in the knowledge of our potential and its myriad fulfilments in the mind’s eye, confronted by the reality of the one thing we are in the actual world. The paintings hold their own despite this message not being writ large—it is for the viewer to interpret, and this only adds to their impact. 

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