By
Minako Ota
Piece description from the artist
Almost all of my paintings carry some symbols of my personal mythology. For example, you might notice that I often insert circles in my compositions. The circle represents one’s being, which is the ultimate mystery: when you draw a circle, the beginning of the line becomes the end of it. It means, any point of the circle can be the beginning AND the ending. In Zen Buddhism, your life is also a collection of these moments of beginnings and endings, which is, in fact, eternity. Although many of my paintings contain Japanese symbolism and motifs, I don’t limit myself to the Japanese theme. Basically I paint what pleases me at any given moment and I use my own paintings as a tool for self-reflection. I can observe how I evolve and become a different person on the everyday basis as I paint. My art works are mainly acrylic on linen canvas. Acrylic is a versatile material and I enjoy getting many different effects by texturing and layering.
Minako Ota is an award-winning artist, born and trained in Japan as a traditional Japanese painter. She subsequently studied and worked in the field of painting conservation in Europe and the United States.
Her work is an ongoing metamorphosis of her own self-perception and worldview. Her experiences outside of Japan made Minako's artistic vision a hybrid of Asian and European cultures, and her works reflect these opposite worlds: she combines the Western painting techniques she mastered over years through conservation with the traditional Japanese motifs of her youth.
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