ABOUT

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English

Yuka is a self-taught visual artist from Kobe, Japan. She studied Social Work. She moved to Winnipeg, Canada in 2000. She also lived in Kingston before she settled in Saskatoon in 2005.

She decided to come to Canada on her own to challenge herself and experience cultural differences. It became harder when she became an immigrant. So she started to draw to be free.

Colour pencils and paper are her medium. She loves colour pencils that give out strong colors even though they are fragile and delicate.

She draws intuitively as she sees an image appear on paper and keeps adding images like a puzzle.

She values on actions of creation, not the meaning of her art.

For her, art is one of her ways to create her final form as a person. In that sense, drawing is the same as running and being kind to others.

Her interest is to understand the relationship between body and mind. After her grandmother had died of cancer when she was 12, she felt that the body was just a box and there must have been a true self inside the flesh. Another pivotal moment was her pregnancies of three children. Regardless of her consciousness, her body transformed and a new life began to grow. She couldn’t help thinking her body was a part of nature. Since then, she started to use vivid colours.

She hopes to find ways to connect her art, community, and social services.

When she's not drawing, she enjoys studying zen buddhism, cooking Japanese food from scratch, and long-distance running.

Japanese

日本のみなさまへ

はじめまして。私は神戸市に生まれ、三木市にて山に囲まれ育ちました。和歌山市、京都市に住み、2000年にカナダへ移住。ウイニペグ、キングストンに住んだ後、現在はサスカトゥーンに住んでいます。

精神に負荷と違和感を与える為にカナダへ一人で渡りましたが、新移民としての生活は困難でした。不安定な私を救ったのは絵を描くことでした。

色鉛筆と紙が私のミディアムです。削られてすぐ折れるけれど、繊細で力強い色を出す色鉛筆が私は大好きです。

絵の中で自由に感覚の波に乗って紙の上に浮ぶものだけをパズルのように描き繋げていきます。描き始めは絵の完成図がどのようなものか知りません。

あなたの心の動きと私の絵が重なることで私の絵に意味が生まれると思っています。

私にとってのアートは最終的な自分の完成形を作るための一つの方法です。その意味ではランニングも人にやさしくすることも、アートも私にとっては同じことです。

私の関心は常に肉体と精神との関係です。

12歳のとき祖母が癌で亡くなったことをきっかけに、肉体は箱で本当の自分は肉体の内にあると信じていました。妊娠と出産では、自分の意識に関係なく肉体が変化し新しい生命が体内で成長するにつれ、自分は自然の一部で、生かされている存在だと強く感じました。その頃から色使いが鮮やかになっていきました。