September 1 –September 30, 2021
SOLO Exhibition
Megumi Kai
Water Earth
The Water on Earth never runs out. Just as the water and light of our earth is the hope of living.
My theme is water, and I am working on observing and expressing water from various angles. My image embodies the hope of purification and healing through the flow of fresh, clean water.
How about a comfortable stream of water in your life? Thank you coming and Please hope you will enjoy the healing Japanese painting.
Water
mineral pigments painting on Japanese paper
63.78 x 89.49 inches
2019
$7,000 (without frame)
Water Ⅰ
mineral pigments painting on Japanese paper
351.97 x 51.3 inches
2019
$4,000 (with frame)
Light in Water
mineral pigments painting on Japanese paper
11.7 x 16.54 inches
2019
$300 (with frame)
Flowing Time
mineral pigments painting on Japanese paper
101.97 x 63.78 inches
2021
$8,000 (without frame)
Water Earth
mineral pigments painting on Japanese paper
63.78 x 63.78 inches
2021
$5,000 (without frame)
Waiting for Spring
mineral pigments painting on Japanese paper
17.92 x 14.97 inches
2021
$1,000 (with frame)
Water Flow
mineral pigments painting on Japanese paper
14.97 x 17.92 inches
2021
$1,000 (with frame)
Flourish
mineral pigments painting on japanese paper
17.92 x 20.87 inches
2020
$1,200 (with frame)
Amulet
mineral pigments painting on Japanese paper
28.63 x 23.86 inches
2020
$2,000 (with frame)
Nature that was born from water wants to draw the hope of people who grow toward the light.
It expresses the state of mind toward the bright side and the deep sadness that disappears as bubbles. Water also has a purifying effect. Her hometown Sendai that disappeared from the tsunami has found the light of hope and is rising from the circle of people. Water can be a serious threat to people, but at the same time, it moisturizes and heals people.
Megumi Kai’s work, Water series was created by flushing the anguish and sadness with pure water that protects and gives you pleasant purification and healing.
Her painting reminds you of a light that stretches toward hope in the water.
Water Series is made with glue, Natural Pigments, Nikawa, Gold, Silver, and Japanese Paper.
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.
