art space co-jin

ARITA Sadahiro

Around 2002, ARITA's creative activities began when he was involved in the production of original drawings for a calendar published by the workshop he attends. Around 2014, a smiling character also appeared. These characters are also imaginary and have no models.
He mainly works with colored pencils, and the warmth of the colors is created by applying additional layers on top of the base layer.

IGAWA Kazume

Affiliation: Social Welfare Corporation Kyoto Sogo Fukushi Kyoukai Rakusai Fureai no Sato Jusanen
The various sizes of cat ceramics are original products that can only be made by IGAWA at Rakusai Fureai no Sato Vocational Center. When asked if she made them because she liked cats, she cheerfully replied, "No." The idea came from a staff member's suggestion around 2019. Although she had no experience with ceramics, IGAWA, who is dexterous with her hands, soon became familiar with handling clay. She created shapes based on her memories of a cat that lived near her parents' house, and became increasingly efficient at molding, and now she makes five of them a day when she receives an order.
IGAWA said she has no reason to make cats over and over again, but she also told us that she is happy when people see them, and are pleased with them.

OHASHI Toya

He began drawing in junior high school when he was asked to draw a portrait of a friend, and by the time he was in the second year he began copying maps. Sometimes he faithfully reproduces the original diagrams, and other times he draws them in a variety of colors. OHASHI repeatedly draws timetables and billboards because it is "fun". As if to corroborate this statement, we looked at a large number of his works on loan this time.
Since 2022, he has been taking pictures of signs and guide maps that he likes at the places he stops by when he is doing posting work, and drawing them based on the pictures. He can complete the smallest of these in less than 30 minutes.

KAWAI Yohei

The colorful bodies of the animals are divided into parts and painted with multiple layers of lines like ripples. KAWAI says that he paints because he enjoys coloring. He came up with his own method of painting by repeating lines to fill in the inside of the outline. He also has his own rules for color schemes, which he applies accordingly.
He has been participating in painting classes at a day center since around 2003, but it was not until around 2013 that he began to paint continuously. He selects an encyclopedia from the classroom bookshelf, chooses an animal, and begins to work. Because he works in small, detailed sections each day, it can take him more than half a year to complete one painting.

KURITA Ryo

KURITA has been drawing pictures since he was a child, but it was not until he entered high school that he began to produce them in earnest. It was around that time that he became aware that he was repeatedly depicting battlefields.
The scene of small characters fighting looks like something from a video game, but it is based on a real event with KURITA's fantasies added. When he paints, he spreads the paper on the floor and starts from the edge of the picture plane. There are no preliminary sketches, and he considers the overall composition as he paints. He pays particular attention to the structures, spending one to two weeks on each building and designing weapons and other items to fit the characters' bodies, using actual objects for reference.

YOSHIOKA Saori

She began painting in 2010, after entering a rehabilitation center. The repeated colorful circles and arches look like unplanned doodles, but when asked about the colors and shapes in the paintings, each shape has a meaning: skewered circles are dumplings, pink circles are cherry blossoms, and arches are eyebrows. They are all things that YOSHIOKA likes. She says she repeatedly draws circles and arches because she enjoys doing so.
She spreads a sheet of paper across her large desk and rolls a selection of colored pencils from a stack onto the paper. She adds a little more every day, and the work is completed in about a month.