KEN UMENO

KENJI is a painter of Japanese origin. He values the senses in his life. Sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch, and intuition. Emotions generated by these senses are also an important element in the creation of his works. He changes what he paints according to his intuition at any given moment. Theref...

KENJI is a painter of Japanese origin. He values the senses in his life. Sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch, and intuition. Emotions generated by these senses are also an important element in the creation of his works. He changes what he paints according to his intuition at any given moment. Therefore, one of his characteristics is that the themes of his paintings change in various ways. The themes he draws are based on nature, flora and fauna, cute things, nostalgia, the universe, the spiritual world, Buddhist paintings, elements, and so on. The colors used in his paintings are also carefully chosen, so that the buyer can feel a sense of color and enrichment by incorporating his paintings into their lives. The common concept of his works is "dialogue. He expresses what he feels and what is born from the dialogue with himself, with nature, with animals, and with others. One of the purposes of KENJI's solo exhibitions is to ask the viewer what he or she felt or did not feel about the paintings. What did they feel or not feel? One of the purposes of Kenji's solo exhibitions is to engage in a dialogue with the viewers through his paintings, asking them what they felt or did not feel. The act of creating and exhibiting his paintings is one of his communication tools. He hopes that viewers will develop a dialogue with the paintings and with themselves through the paintings.