Japan
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Tokyo and Toyama Washoku (Japanese Food) Excerpts
From the quirky dishes of the lively Izakayas in the East side of Tokyo to Toyama’s famous salty Black Ramen and fish for sushi and sashimi from the rough seas […]
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Journey skywards – Tokyo Skytree and Umihotaru Sea Station
grey-white-grey no rust steady waymarker visitor blanketed platforms contained taiyaki and colonel saunders ready for christmas deep blue negatives and folding darknesses drawing looking up straining higher shards segmented triangulated […]
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Danjuro Ichikawa – The World of Aragoto
A few days after a friend kindly let me know about this exhibition (and giving me a ticket!) I headed to Yurakucho and over to Hibiya Koen on a chilly […]
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Trip to Noto Hanto peninsula, Ishikawa Ken
The towering Niou guardians upon entering the thousand year old Myoujoji Temple (Nichiren Shu), on the West side of Noto. Sacred rocks and shinto shrine, brief stop on the road […]
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Tokyo Art Exhibitions – MOT and David Lynch at LAFORET
During my show in Omotesando I was delighted to see David Lynch had an exhibtion on at the Laforet Department Store’s Gallery, just down the road at the Harajuku crossing. […]
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Recent artworks formed in and around Shibuya and Omotesando…
Using calligraphy boards, pens and mixed media I’ve made a series of around thirty new pieces, which I’m planning to continue. The local environment was an excellent area for creativity […]
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Traces of Time | 時間の足跡
Here are a selection of images of the show plus some Omotesando street views around Gallery 80 in Omotesando Hills building (Aoyama area, Tokyo). It was a very pleasant time […]
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Journey to Tokyo from Glasgow by jumbo jet and shinkansen
After arriving in Japan I had a couple of weeks to prepare the works, organise mounting, liaise with Gallery 80 and develop my self-styled ‘black box’ multimedia construction. Time was […]
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Colours and shapes in the kitchen…
Enjoying some simple cooking in the last month or so with classic Japanese sauces – the black bream worked out really well baked in foil in a hot oven with […]