These spectacular cloud formations are one of the positive side-effects of the heat and humidity in a Japanese summer. During this season I wake up in the morning feeling 90 rather than 43. I have a dry throat and I feel weak, tired and too hot. I start feeling better about six or seven in the evening.
Perhaps the first thing any landscape artist should learn is to take advantage of whatever is there even if it appears ugly.
This painting is an enigma. Firstly, I’m not sure when I painted it. I’m guessing it was around 2011. Secondly, I can’t remember doing this painting. And thirdly, I have no idea where this place is.
This is one of my old paintings. I’m not sure of the exact year that I painted it but I think that it must have been between 2005 and 2010. I have thrown away nearly all of my old work from that period but this is one that I kept.