Form Through Colour is a selection of work by Naoko Matsubara, currently displayed in our Project Gallery.
This body of work centres on the artists’s incredible use and understanding of colour – and how through the methodology of traditional Japanese printmaking – she achieves these intricate forms.
Matsubara Naoko 松原 直子, the distinguished Japanese-Canadian woodcut print artist, was born in 1937 on Shikoku Island into an old Shinto family, and grew up in Kyoto, where her father was a senior priest. She was educated at the Kyoto Academy of Fine Art (BFA, 1960); and was a Fulbright Scholar at what is now Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh (MFA, 1962). She was also a Special Invited Student at the Royal College of Art in London (1962).
In 1972 Naoko moved to Canada and now lives in Oakville, Ontario. She has continued to be extremely active as an artist: locally, nationally and internationally. Since 1960 she has had more than 75 solo exhibitions, in the USA, Canada, Japan, England, Ireland, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Holland and Mexico. She has also participated in numerous group exhibitions.