Artists

  • IKEGAMI Yoji

    Born in 1974 | Painting

    He draws animals and plants in bold compositions and colors by looking at pictorial books and photos. He draws his favorite motifs repeatedly, but the color scheme and color mixtures change each time. His creative schemes are found in his novel expression, and his lines express the powerful existence of a life to the fullest. During his production, he enjoys drawing while conversing and making jokes with the staff and other facility users.

  • UEBA Chiharu

    Born in 1979 | Lives in Maizuru City, Kyoto Prefecture | Embroidery

    UEBA Chiharu loves embroidery and cleaning. She sometimes enjoys word games with the facility staff while working on her embroidery. She draws a sketch, matches sewing machine threads of various colors, and starts embroidering after arranging the threads. Anything from color matching, yarn making, and composition of embroidery pieces are original and come under the title: "Chiharu Stitch".

  • UNI Hidehiro

    Born in 1978 | Lives in Kyoto City | painting

    UNI Hidehiro became a member of Atelier Uoof when he was a junior high school student. Back then, his pictures often did not fit on the small sheets of papers he used; instead they became three-dimensional, cut up, pasted and put together. Soon he showed his talent in oil painting. Drawing a horizontal line in the canvas produces an image in him, which feature dynamic composition and youthful and surreal color palettes. He continues his creative work at his own pace at Atelier Uoof as well.

  • OSAMURA Yoshihiko

    Born in 1968 | Lives in 京都市 | 絵画

    Yoshihiko likes colors, but can’t find what to draw. That made him realize that he can start drawing if he is given some form of pattern to begin with. Ever since this discovery, he started on creating pieces utilizing some templated rulers around 2011. He creates animals, plants, and geometric patterns, designing various shapes out of many rulers he owns. He sketches with colored mechanical pencils, then colors it with a pencil of his own design that comes with a little pocket bin. You will see his repetitive iconography, beautiful and full of potential, which takes a half year to complete, and his passion for drawing is full of vibrant colors.

  • KAWAMURA Akio

    Born in 1961 | Lives in Joyo City, Kyoto Prefecture | painting

    KAWAMURA Akio has always loved drawing pictures. His works from around 2010 have been stored in the social welfare facility “DO”. He often draws pictures in his room at the welfare facility, even outside of his club activity hours, and continues to confront his sketchbook until he feels it is enough. The number of such sketchbooks exceeds 100, and eventually they all turn out to be colorfully detailed, looking slightly the same but also slightly different. There is a certain world of Mr. Kawamura which is being spread outwards. He particularly likes Tokyo Tower, and colorfully draws places such as Downtown Tokyo, centered on Tokyo Tower as well as Lake Biwa and Mount Hiei.

  • KIBIKI Hideaki

    1960-2021 | Painting

    Around age 12, because of his father’s work, he moved from Osaka to Ibaraki, and later to Chiba. At age 18, he entered the Graphic Design program at the Nippon Design Vocational School (Currently the Nippon Design Welfare College). After graduating, he returned to Kameoka City, Kyoto Prefecture and moved in with his parents.
    He draws with pencil and colored pencils in his sketchbooks, and his specialties are illustrations and delicate drawings of animals.

  • KIMURA Koichi

    Born in 1976 | Lives in Kyoto City | Ceramics

    KIMURA produces his original “Yokai” monsters through his pottery, such as a kappa (a mythological water goblin), monkeys with humorous expressions, or creatures with body parts such as their limbs, eyes, nose and mouth that are freely combined. He sometimes makes many works based on the same motifs, but he still ultimately creates a variety of different works. When he was in elementary school, he became a fan of “Yokai” because of Shigeru Mizuki, a famous manga artist. He initially copied those seen in cartoons, and gradually began drawing his own originals. After he started attending Shuko Gakuen (social welfare facility), he gradually began creating ceramics, and now he makes three-dimensional ceramic objects at the facility, along with drawing a lot of pictures with a pencil on B5 size paper at home.

  • KIMURA Masahiko

    Born in 1984 | Lives in Kyoto City | Painting

    Draw a picture with a unique touch using a colored pencil. The screen is made up of a collection of small touches known by the nickname "Cuni Cuni", this creates a unique visual effect and serves to attract viewers. Each time, various motifs are drawn by viewing photos and magazines. He loves horses and TV variety shows.

  • KOKUBO Yukihiro

    Born in 1974 | Painting

    KOKUBO Yukihiro applies layer upon layer of thick crayon and light paints.His process is like an endless journey passed over time and time again. Sometimes he applies his brush while humming a distinctive melody. He paints a sense of lightness and deepness into the paper.The weight of his art is truly astonishing.

  • SAKURAI Saburo

    Born in 1956 | Lives in Ayabe City, Kyoto Prefecture | Painting

    2015年ごろから入居する施設の中で絵を描き始めた。施設では当初は農作業をしていたが、体力的に合わなかったため、絵を描く班に移ったことがきっかけだという。別の作業所への送迎バスの窓からの風景や旅行で見た景色の記憶を元に描いたり、写真のたくさん載っているチラシやパンフレットを集めては、それらを見て描いている。モチーフとしてはバスなどの乗り物、道路、山などの風景に加えて、たくさん持っている動物のぬいぐるみが描かれることもある。

  • TK

    Born in 1968 | Painting

    He started drawing pictures after he participated in a workshop in 2013. GOTO is a quiet, sincere, and serious person. His painting style features accurate and realistic drawings that reflect his personality. When he cannot fit a motif on one side of the paper, he continues drawing on the reverse of the paper, which is quite unconventional. His distinctive and brilliant coloring is also very beautiful.

  • NISHINARI Teruko

    Born in 1955 | Lives in Joyo City, Kyoto Prefecture | Painting

    スケッチブックにオイルパステルで描かれた西生てる子の作品は、独自の方法によって生み出されている。まず最初のページにオイルパステルで少しだけ線を描き、次のページにも少しだけ線を描く。さらにページをめくり、同様に描いてはまたページをめくる。そうして、スケッチブックの最後に辿り着くとひとつ前のページへ戻り、また同じように描き重ねていく。その小さな行為の繰り返しによって線は幾重にも重なり、手で擦られ、ぼんやりとした色のかたまりがつくられていく。

  • HAMANAKA Toru

    Born in 1948 | Lives in Uji City, Kyoto Prefecture | Painting

    Since he began drawing at the age of 19, he has been continued to draw his own worldview. Among the delicate paintings created by his unique technique, there is an iron ore frog listening to the radio, a mechanical watch bug, and even a camera with its own original functions, etc. The artist is developing various stories in each picture.

  • HIRATA Takeshi

    1936-2021 | Lives in Kyoto City | Drawing

    HIRATA Takeshi keeps drawing in a sketchbook on his bed every day. There are various motifs including human bodies composed of internal organs, letters, simplified animals, medicines, landscapes seen outside of windows, etc. There are a huge number of drawings that are produced without any break in-between.

  • HIROKAWA Terufumi

    Born in 1965 | 立体

    In his room at the group home where HIROKAWA lives, a large number of cardboard boxes are piled high. They are called "boxes," and they are packed inside and out, wrapped with several layers of packaging tape. The boxes are made behind a locked door in the artist’s room, so it is not clear what is in them.
    The "boxes" are made at a rate of about one per day, and the number continues to grow daily. When the staff tried to persuade HIROKAWA to reduce the number of boxes because they were putting too much pressure on his life, he told them that they were "more important than my life". Since then, the staff has been searching for a way to coexist while respecting HIROKAWA's wishes.

  • FUJIHASHI Takashi

    Born in 1963 | Lives in Kyoto City | Painting

    Drawing fine and smooth imaginary parks and towns, and foreign landscapes he sees in photographs in colored pencil, Takashi works in his unique and relaxed manner and with a certain rhythm. His use of color and his delicate touch represent his sensitivity and appear as a vivid world. He has recently found employment, and has been working hard at work alongside producing art.

  • MATSUBARA Hikaru

    Born in 1975 | Lives in Kyoto City | Embroidery

    MATSUBARA Hikaru's embroidered pieces depict ships and airplanes he has seen along his travels and flowers that bloom in the garden each season. When his heart is filled with sorrow after earthquake, melancholy animals appear in his canvases, reflecting hissadness. When visiting temples and shrines, if he is touched by something, his flower petals will show unique patterns. In his repetitive everyday, the repetitive movements of his needle string together his artistic vision in a splash of color.

  • MAMEMI

    Lives in Kyoto City | painting

    絵を描くことと可愛いものがとにかく好きで、休み時間も絵を描き続けている。花がモチーフとなる絵が多いが、くまやうさぎなどの動物や人物が登場することもある。フラワーアレンジメントの雑誌や絵はがきなどを見ながらイメージを膨らませ、リズミカルに色鉛筆を躍らせている。

  • MITSUSHIMA Takayuki

    Born in 1954 | Lives in Kyoto City | Two-dimensional work, three-dimensional work, installation

    MITSUSHIMA Takayuki lost his eyesight when he was 10 years old. After graduating from Otani University (Faculty of Letters Departments of Philosophy), he opened an acupuncture clinic. He began working with clay art in 1992 and has started “sawaru kaiga”, touching art, since 1995, utilizing some drafting tapes and cutting sheets. He was awarded Silver for the Art Paralympic Nagano ‘98 in 1998. Mitsushima looks for new expressions in his art, such as tactile sequel art, and there are many works that collaborated with other artists and tactile collages that he has explored since 2012. He is particularly keen on planning workshops that focus on the sense of touch.

  • MINO Ayako

    Born in 1993 | Lives in Maizuru City, Kyoto Prefecture | painting

    She mainly had been creating a lot of drawings about Japanese history to attract a certain staff's attention who is working at the facility which she uses.
    However he hardly loved her back, so she takes up with ICHIKAWA Ennosuke who is a kabuki actor as 'new sweetheart', and draws him nowadays.
    Most of the works are drawn with a ballpoint, and the locus' round trip makes her unique lines combining sharpness and fluctuation.

  • MIHARA Iwao

    1932-2021 | painting

    Born in Osaka, Japan, MIHARA is hearing impaired and grew up focusing on memory through visual images. Around 2001, after retiring and living in Kyoto City, he began creating paintings based on his own memories. Many of these depict the times during World War II, with some depicting daily life during the war and others vividly conveying the actual experience of the Bombing of Osaka. In his later years, he traveled to various places with his paintings to pass on his war experiences.

  • YAMAGUCHI Ai

    Born in 1986 | Lives in Nagaokakyo City, Kyoto Prefecture | painting

    She often draws her favorite motifs repeatedly, and one such motif is a girl with pitch-black eyes. She likes to eat and draw cakes and other sweets, and has drawn a series of 400 pictures on her notepad. The NHK Broadcasting Station, which she has also visited, and airports often appear in her drawings. Although many of her paintings are deformed, some are more realistic.

  • YONEDA Yuji

    Born in 1991 | Lives in Yawata City, Kyoto Prefecture | Photograph

    He begun to photograph with his mother’s mobile phone when he in the upper grades at elementary school. He got a digital camera when he was in the 3rd grade at junior high school, and ever since then he has been serious about photography. In his photos, he captures things like the scenery from his neighbour’s, everyday meals, cats, soft serve ice cream, people he has met and the sky from his own perspective, all the things that are all around him.