Masako Tobita Japanese, b. 1954

Works
Overview

"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

2024

2021

'Where Rocks Become Sea', The Porthminster Gallery, St Ives.

'Penwith Rhythms', 'Winter Show', The Porthminster Gallery, St Ives.

2019

2018

'Winter Show', The Porthminster Gallery, St Ives.

'Layers', The Porthminster Gallery, St Ives.

2017 'Cornucopia', The Porthminster Gallery, St Ives.
  Solo Show, The Minster Gallery, Winchester.
2016 Clifton Contemporary Art, Bristol.
  'Tide Lines', The Porthminster Gallery, St Ives.
2015 '', The Porthminster Gallery, St Ives.
2014 Solo Show, The Minster Gallery, Winchester.
2013  Sketch Touring Exhibition, The Rabley Drawing Centre, Wiltshire .
2012 Solo Show, The Minster Gallery, Winchester.
  Jenna Burlingham Fine Art, Hampshire
2010 Summerfield Gallery, Cheltenham.
2006 Royal Academy of Arts / Summer Exhibition.
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

 

                       

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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