Between Fields & Sky
Japan Countryside I
11” x 15” - Mixed–media on cold press paper - 2024
(water colour, oil pastels and colour pencils)
I was inspired by the quiet calm of rural Japan, this artwork captures a landscape where stillness becomes the central presence. I layered composition in a way that feels like it moves from cultivated fields to distant mountain ranges, creating depth through soft tonal shifts and flowing contours.
To bring more textured depth, the sky was rendered by blending pastels and watercolour, carrying a dreamlike quality — light, airy, and expansive — suggesting both openness and introspection. Structures within the landscape remain modest and grounded, emphasizing harmony rather than dominance over nature.
The use of mixed media techniques allowed the texture to play an essential role, with pigment settling into the surface in ways that echo natural rhythms and organic movement.
The work is not a literal representation, but a sensory translation of place — a feeling of pause, breath, and quiet observation.
As part of a growing series, this piece explores rural landscapes as spaces of emotional clarity, solitude, and soft belonging, where nature and human presence coexist without tension.
