Ai Shinohara Oil Painting

My Artist of the Week: Ai Shinohara is a Japanese young artist with a skill in illustrating the delicate relationship between nature and people. Her paintings are done in a clearly defined figurative style that is clean, soft toned and feminine and features strange characters. The pretty and the gruesome are painted into the surreal composition that features young women with flowers and fish but also with clear signs of blood and death. The viewers are left with empathy for the artist and the females in her paintings that all come across as vulnerable and on the edge...