Sumi-e / Japanese Brush Painting Classes

SUMI-E / Brush Painting and Watercolor Classes

Venue: the Albany Community Center 

1249 Marin Avenue, Albany, CA

Dates:

3/8-4/12    Fridays 9:45-11:45am  5x
NEW 5/9-6/6   Thursdays 9:00-12:00am  5x 

(8 students max / class)

Call for further information and Registration: (510) 524-9283

E-mail for Supply List: art@fumiyo-y.com

JAPANESE BRUSH PAINTING Classes

Venue: Civic Arts Education Shadelands Campus (Annex A) 

111 North Widget Ln (at Ygnacio Valley Rd)

Walnut Creek, CA 94598

Dates:

3/25-6/10 Mondays 9:00am -12:00pm 9x

(No Class on 4/1, 4/15, 5/27)

Call for further information and Registration: (925) 943-5846

E-mail for Supply List: art@fumiyo-y.com

SATURDAY Classes and Workshops

Venue: Studio 205A

1021 Broadway, #205A, San Pablo, CA 94806

Saturday classes and Workshops 2013

Saturday classes with Fumiyo Yoshikawa 2013

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Saturday Special Workshops (4 min, 6 max)

Location: 925 Jackson St. Albany, CA 94706

Time: from 1:00-3:00

$30 per session (material list available upon signing up)

8/17 Starting SUMI-E for very beginners

*Schedule is sometimes changed. 

墨絵Sumi-e private lessons $40/hour (Student brings all necessary supplies each time.)

日本画Nihonga private lessons $60/hour (+ Supplies as needed)

For registration and further information: art@fumiyo-y.com

Fumiyo's Upcoming Classes and Workshops

Season's Greetings from Fumiyo Yoshikawa

SUMI-E / Brush Painting and Watercolor Classes

Venue: the Albany Community Center 

1249 Marin Avenue, Albany, CA

Dates:

1/18-2/15  Fridays 9:45-11:45am  5x

3/8-4/12    Fridays 9:45-11:45am  5x

NEW 5/9-6/6   Thursdays 9:00-12:00am  5x 

(8 students max / class)

Call for further information and Registration: (510) 524-9283

E-mail for Supply List: art@fumiyo-y.com

JAPANESE BRUSH PAINTING Classes

Venue: Civic Arts Education Shadelands Campus (Annex A) 

111 North Widget Ln (at Ygnacio Valley Rd)

Walnut Creek, CA 94598

Dates:

1/7-3/11 Mondays 9:00am -12:00pm 8x

(No Class on 1/21, 2/18)

Call for further information and Registration: (925) 943-5846

E-mail for Supply List: art@fumiyo-y.com

SATURDAY Classes and Workshops

Venue: Studio 205A

1021 Broadway, #205A, San Pablo, CA 94806

E-mail for further information: art@fumiyo-y.com

Season's Greetings

 Hoping you are surrounded by love and warmth this holiday season. Merry Christmas!

Fumiyo Yoshikawa Exhibit at Berkeley Public Library

Toru Sugita Exhibit at La Pena

Fumiyo Yoshikawa Exhibit from Nov.5th 2012-Feb.3rd 2013

The Art of  

Fumiyo Yoshikawa

A Place Where Memories and Thoughts are Shared

at

Berkeley Public Library

First Floor Catalog Lobby

2090 Kittredge Street, Berkeley, CA94704

510-981-6100

November 5th, 2012 – February 3rd, 2013

Artist’s Reception

Sunday, November11th from 2PM to 4PM

Artist Statement

A Place Where Memories and Thoughts are Shared

My art work is based on traditional Japanese art methods, such as sumi-e and nihonga.  Sumi-e is a unique form of Asian art that has produced some of the world’s finest masterpieces of ink painting. Originating in China and having its spiritual basis in Zen Buddhism, this form of expressing nature’s colors through shades of black ink monochrome has been popular in China, Korea and Japan for many centuries.  Nihonga literally means Japanese painting.  In the narrowest definition, nihonga is a particular painting style that utilizes Japanese pigments and binder with traditional tools and technique. I value the labor intensive procedures required by Nihonga because the manual labor itself serves as a meditation and enables me to concentrate on my paintings.

By combining both abstract and figurative paintings my aim is to create a realm in which everyone’s memories and thoughts are shared, exchanged, connected and sometimes combined, as they are in a library.  My figurative paintings stimulate memories or the subconscious; the abstract paintings symbolically express thoughts or philosophies that are mixed together and shared.  Some of the shapes of my abstract paintings are inspired by images of human brains or neurons.  Both types of paintings are related and support each other to give form to this special place.  

I am happy to be able to exhibit my world of art in the Berkeley Public Library.  In books there is a certain sensation, not found in the Internet, strongly related to my art, which values man-made works.

Fumiyo Yoshikawa 

www.fumiyo-y.com