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Byōbu
or folding screen in six panels mounted with a painting on
gold-covered silk in mineral pigments, sumi ink and
gofun or clam shell gesso, depicting a fishing boat adrift
in a small pond enclosed by clouds of flowering cherry under a
gibbous moon. With black lacquer frames and silver mounts. By
Sugawara Sachiyo (born 1964). Heisei 10 or 1998.
Titled: Sayo or Evening, this
painting was created for an exhibition at Hōzandō Gallery in
1998. The work was painted on an unadorned, early 20th century
gold and silk folding screen.
Born in Tokyo, Sugawara Sachiyo graduated from
the Tama University of Fine Art in 1989. The following year
she had her first solo exhibition at the Kawakami Gallery, and
first had a painting accepted into the government-sponsored
Nitten art exhibition. In 1992, she was accepted into the
Nisshun-ten art exhibition and also showed again at the Nitten.
Since then she has continued to exhibit in both group and solo
exhibitions on an almost annual basis, both at private
galleries and the art galleries of great department stores
such as Takashimaya and Hankyū in Tokyo, Yokohama, Osaka and
Kyoto.
The painter works extensively in tarashikomi or
wet, pooling brushwork. The color palette of sumi ink,
browns and greys contrasts with her lavish use of silver and
white gofun in the blossoms and their reflections in
the water. Painting with an impressionist eye that leaves the
brushwork clear and abstract across the surface of the screen,
Sachiyo makes brilliant use of the shimmering, gold ground,
glinting in the foliage and evening light.
53 ½” high x 102” wide, when opened flat. |
