Kamal Bakhshi Modern Asian Art is a London based dealer of Modern Asian Art. Specialising in the work of Japanese artists our catalogue ranges from masterpieces by the likes of Toko Shinoda, Daniel Kelly, and Kazuko Shiihashi, to contemporary print-works by Ray Morimura, Kazutoshi Sugiura and Ryohei Tanaka. Kamal Bakhshi Modern Asian Art also offer a range of museum quality woodblock prints by master printmakers: Yoshitoshi Mori, Sadao Watanabe and Iwami Reika.
FEATURED WORKS
ARTISTS
Tamekane Yoshikatsu
Woodblock prints made textural with metallic leaf collaged onto the block, which may be embossed or etched, resulting in rich and diverse images of space and moons and shadowy horizons. Tamekane says he savours the past and anticipates the future to be a time of hope and advancement for the human spirit…
Midori Sahashi
Born in Nagoya, and taught by Nomura Hiroshi, Midori’s etchings are re- strained and textural. She is part of the British Museum’s permanent collection of Japanese prints and was featured in Lawrence Smith”s ‘Contemporary Japanese Prints Symbols of a Society in Transition’ (1985)
Mayumi Oda
Known to many as the ‘Matisse of Japan’, Mayumi Oda has done extensive work with female goddess imagery. Born to a Buddhist family in Japan in 1941, Mayumi studied fine art and traditional Japanese fabric dyeing. In 1966, she graduated from Tokyo University of Fine Arts. Mayumi’s unique apprenticeship dyeing fabric for kimonos influences…
Morimura Ray
Originally an oil painter, his works were geometric style abstractions. He turned his hand to woodcut and lino cut print making, creating wonderfully intricate designs and textures, on mulberry bark kozo paper. He hopes to express something spiritual, in a contemporary sense, in his landscape works.