Taku Shinyama1975~ 新山拓

Shinyama Taku is a Japanese-style painter born in Tottori Prefecture in 1975, raised in Tokyo and Saitama, who completed his graduate studies in Japanese painting at Tama Art University in 2001. He has consistently painted landscapes, climbing mountains himself and rendering the scenery and the heartbeat of the mountains (earth) he encounters there into paintings using mineral pigments. Saying "landscapes are encountered in a state of the soul," he aims to convey an instinctive state of beauty while taking the principles of nature as a premise of consciousness. In recent years, he has worked on a series titled "PRAYER," expanding his expressive range by viewing the act of painting itself as a form of prayer. He serves as the representative of Art School+Yokohama and is a member of the Japan Artists Association.