Kyoko Murase Amethyst, 2015 Oil color pencil on cotton 45 x 35 cm Kyoko Murase has continually charted new territories in her painting with slight changes in subject matter. Her paintings, which depict female figures in various contexts such as in water, caves and forests, are characterized by her brush work, which creates two conflicted elements like delicate and strong, warmth and coolness and loneliness and intimacy. In her recent works, which are backed by sophisticated technique, it is as if the painted elements resonate on the canvas in order to expand the possibilities of painting even further.
