Walking to Karatsu Castle

Walking to Karatsu Castle (2025)
15 x 10 cm. From the series 'Memories from Itoshima'.
Coloured pencil, watercolour, gouache, Akashiya Sai watercolour brush pensand ink brush pen on Fabriano 200 gram cold press watercolour paper.
160 euro (unframed) 195 euro framed

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STORY:
This drawing is inspired by a walk during my artist in residence in 2024 at Studio Kura in Itoshima, with Benoit Aupoix . We took the local train to Niji-no-Matsubara, one of Japan's three greatest pine groves located in neighbouring Karatsu city. Spontaneously we decided to walk to Karatsu castle and on the way we encountered a local shrine.

As usual I work from my memories, assisted by my own photographs. My work is never a one on one representation of the scene encountered (in this case the entry to a local shrine) but my own visualisation of a specific memory in time.