![[Yuki Katsura painting.jpg]] I feel abstract works like these are successful in part because of their seeming simplicity of colour and shape. I would like to do similar work and concentrate on creating minute detail through abstract methods.. such as the sunlight, painting the sunlight. ‘Initially trained in both Nihonga (Japanese style painting) and Western painting, Katsura visited Paris, Central [[Africa]], and New York in the late 1950s, where she produced a series of unique two-dimensional works, which involved painting over pieces of wrinkled washi paper that had been collaged onto the canvas. After three years in New York, she returned to Japan in 1961 and continued to experiment with unconventional modes of expression including finely detailed paintings, collages and caricatures.’ #Art