dream catcher Ⅰ
pigments on paper
17.92 x 14.97 inches
2020
$500 (with frame)
Megumi Kai’s work, Dream catcher Ⅰ.Ⅱ.Ⅲ is a painting series that was created with the wish of protecting you from nightmares and bringing you pleasant dreams. Inspiration came from artistic patterns of threads woven by spiders that look like taut threads of a dreamcatcher hanging beside the bed. Megumi Kai hopes that Dream catcher Ⅰ.Ⅱ.Ⅲ assists you to find peace of mind as a charm that protects you from misfortunes and helps you catch good dreams even in the anxious days amid the global pandemic.
Megumi Kai is a painter based in Yokohama.
Through the creation of Japanese-style painting on Japanese paper using mineral pigments, she vividly expresses the world of nature that amazed her with her singular worldview. The world painted in bright and brilliant colors that give the viewers a warm heart and bright hope uses gold leaf and silver leaf in the base paint to represent the glow of life. Her recent works are themed around water, and she has been working on expressing water by observing it from various angles. Amid the closed atmosphere in the coronavirus pandemic, her images embody her longing for purification and healing through the flow of fresh, clean water. Her dream is to share hope and healing with people around the world through her paintings.
Major awards and exhibitions include the Robert Crowder Prize at the 79th Nihonga-in Exhibition in 2019, a solo exhibition at Gallery Moe L.A, the U.S.A in August and at Arai Gallery in Ginza in December of the same year, the dedication of an eight-panel folding screen painting to the Rikuzentakata Choenji Temple in 2020, the New Color Prize at the 80th Nihonga-in Exhibition in 2021, and another solo exhibition at Arai Gallery in Ginza in March of the same year.
