Kamal Bakhshi Modern Asian Art is a London based dealer of Modern Asian Art. Specialising in the work of Japanese artists Bakhshi’s 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.

ARTISTS

Iwami Reika

Iwami Reika was not a direct pupil of Onchi but she ranks as the last of his true ‘Sosaku Hanga’ line, having been taught by his close associates, Shinagawa Takumi (q.v.) and Sekino Jun’ichiro (q.v.). From Onchi’s example she inherited skill in cool abstraction, as well as the printing from driftwood which has become…

Clifton Karhu

Born in Duluth, Minnesota, the late Clifton Karhu was one of the most acclaimed American woodblock artists to work in Japan. Though the son of two painters and artistically inclined from an early age, Karhu joined the military. Stationed at the American Navy base in Sasebo from 1946 to 1948, he fell in love…

Nakazawa Shin’ichi

Shimmering gold and silver foil in geometric abstracts on an ebony background is how Nakazawa chooses to represent space. At age 19, Nakazawa taught himself copperplate etching, and 10 years on was selected as a “Promising Young Artist” at a so-named exhibition at Tokyo’s Isetan Department store.

Rikio Takahashi

Rikio Takahashi was one Japan’s prominent sōsaku hanga artists. Combining the influences of abstract Modern art of the West and the traditional subjects of his native Japan – namely the gardens of Kyoto – Takahashi’s delicately overlaid designs create an atmosphere of stillness and balance inspired by the changing of the seasons and subtleties…