NANA MIYAGI

I learned Japanese painting (Nihonga)* at high school and university, whose institutions specialize in art. They taught me that the most important aspect was sketching. However, during my student years, I became interested in the act of drawing lines intuitively without thinking, rather than depicting to reproduce something concretely. From that point on, I began to create my pictures with Nihonga's materials by scratching the paint's surface into a lot of straight lines with a needle... In my current creation, I focus on not only such abstract art but also "who I am" and how this personality influences and is related to the surrounding situation and inside myself.