Masako Tobita Japanese, b. 1954

Works
  • Masako Tobita, A Familiar Walk in the Cot Valley, 2023
    Masako Tobita
    A Familiar Walk in the Cot Valley, 2023
    mixed media on panel
    signed on the front
    panel: 40 x 40 cm
    frame: 63 x 63 cm
    £ 880.00
    Masako Tobita, A Familiar Walk in the Cot Valley, 2023
    £ 880.00
  • Masako Tobita, Blue Bell Valley, 2018
    Masako Tobita
    Blue Bell Valley, 2018
    mixed media on panel
    signed on the front
    panel: 40 x 40 cm
    frame: 63 x 63 cm
    £ 880.00
    Masako Tobita, Blue Bell Valley, 2018
    £ 880.00
  • Masako Tobita, Keep on Walking, 2023
    Masako Tobita
    Keep on Walking, 2023
    mixed media on panel
    signed on the front
    panel: 40 x 40 cm
    frame: 63 x 63 cm
    £ 880.00
    Masako Tobita, Keep on Walking, 2023
    £ 880.00
  • Masako Tobita, Pushing Through to the Kenidjack Valley, 2022
    Masako Tobita
    Pushing Through to the Kenidjack Valley, 2022
    mixed media on panel
    signed on the front
    panel: 40 x 40 cm
    frame: 63 x 63 cm
    £ 880.00
    Masako Tobita, Pushing Through to the Kenidjack Valley, 2022
    £ 880.00
  • Masako Tobita, The End of the Stream, 2022
    Masako Tobita
    The End of the Stream, 2022
    mixed media on panel
    signed on the front
    panel: 40 x 40 cm
    frame: 63 x 63 cm
    £ 880.00
    Masako Tobita, The End of the Stream, 2022
    £ 880.00
  • Masako Tobita, Which Way to Go, 2018
    Masako Tobita
    Which Way to Go, 2018
    mixed media on panel
    signed on the front
    panel: 40 x 40 cm
    frame: 63 x 63 cm
    £ 880.00
    Masako Tobita, Which Way to Go, 2018
    £ 880.00
  • Masako Tobita, Zennor in Green, 2023
    Masako Tobita
    Zennor in Green, 2023
    mixed media on panel
    signed on the front
    panel: 40 x 40 cm
    frame: 63 x 63 cm
    £ 880.00
    Masako Tobita, Zennor in Green, 2023
    £ 880.00
Overview

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"My work is very personal.

It's all about how I feel and how I react to the environment at the time.

 

My main tool is walking. Occasionally a camera and a sketch book.

I'm not a great walker but I try as much as I can.

Then I take these feelings and visual memories back to my studio in Hampshire.

I start working on a blank canvas without a particular direction to follow.

In the process of layering marks and colours as well as my thoughts, I usually manage to find the visual destination. 

 

The last time I visited West Cornwall, I was recovering from a serious illness.

I was standing on a cliff near Zennor, a cold wind piercing through my body

urging all my senses to wake up. This familiar magnificent landscape was still there and would be there long after me. I realised that I was a temporary resident in this world."

Selected Exhibitions

 

2019                The Porthminster Gallery / Winter Show

2018                The Porthminster Gallery / Layers

2017                The Porthminster Gallery / Cornucopia

                        The Minster Gallery, Winchester / Solo Show

2016                Clifton Contemporary Art, Bristol

                        The Porthminster Gallery / Tide Lines

2015                The Porthminster Gallery

2014                The Minster Gallery, Winchester / Solo Show

2013                The Rabley Drawing Centre, Wiltshire / Sketch Touring Exhibition

2012                The Minster Gallery, Winchester / Solo Show

                        Jenna Burlingham Fine Art, Hampshire

2010                Summerfield Gallery, Cheltenham

2006                Royal Academy of Arts / Summer Exhibition

2005                Maltby Contemporary Art, Winchester

                        The Stroud House Gallery, Stroud

2004                Modern Artists Gallery, Whitchurch-on-Thames

2002                Cadogan Contemporary Art, London

2001                Guildhall Gallery, Winchester / Solo Show

                        Maltby Contemporary Art, Winchester

2000                Maltby Contemporary Art, Winchester

1999                Modern Artists Gallery, Whitchurch-on-Thames

1997                The Corn Exchange, Newbury / Solo Show

 

 

Public Collection

 Hampshire County Council

 

 

Publications

World of Interiors

Wall Street International Magazine

The East Foundation

The Public Catalogue Foundation / Oil Paintings in Public Ownership

Hampshire Chronicle

Exhibitions