Tag: zenmondays
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Sometime Tokyo. A pop-up writings collection with holiday wishes.
A pop-up newsletter as art project, covering two weeks in Tokyo with ink painting artist and writer Mafalda Tenente
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A good walk‘s spoils. A sunset on the Chasseral.
I nearly packed the second slice of cardboard onto my one-night backpack for the Chasseral. The thought of a mountain scenery landscape was almost too good to resist. However, being less the sturdy board and more the flexi-card type, the idea and object were quickly left behind. The second idea floating about in search of…
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The magnolia tree spell. On mixing artist worlds.
In between the solo exhibition in Japan and the Swiss art book fair summer season, I sliced some more cardboard for the next set of paintings in the “The bookbinder’s world” series. For various reasons I couldn’t paint as regularly as I’d wish in this period of time, meaning this new composition progressed in very…
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The rice field by Kashima shrine at noon. Documenting with care.
It was only meant to be a few days away from this other mixed media painting, weeks at most. Yet, here we are on the first week of April and the Kashima shrine painting is still not complete. For a while I simply found it hard to paint a landscape set in Noto. Does this…
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After the Rain in Suzu. On recognizing inspiration.
“Where to next?” That one question is always staring you in the face as an artist or writer. The minute you set down your brush after writing your signature on a painting – in this case “After the Rain in Suzu”. When you hit send on that email with the final “good for print” on…
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Closing the circle on the season of fresh leaves – “The spring fifer”.
The boundaries between process and meaning. Before I left for the season of fresh green leaves in Japan I fell under the spell of this white blossom branch on a late spring rainy day and started a new painting in “The bookbinder’s world” series. It was the week of Zurich’s Spring festival, and I had…