Abstract

This book features stunning life-sized vegetable paintings by the author, who won the Gold Medal and the Grand Prize at the Royal Horticultural Society's "RHS London Botanical Art Exhibition.

" The book features 86 pieces, completed over a period of 17 years.
Heartwarming essays in both Japanese and English will change the way you look at plants.

The artist carefully depicts the fine hairs, grains of soil, and faint scars, painting them at life-size, with all his heart and soul.

The more you look, the more captivated you become by the microcosm of vegetables. The vegetables, painstakingly drawn day after day to their natural state, are brimming with vitality, almost as if they are dancing. Vegetables are nurtured by people and nature. Vegetables walk alongside us. Recognizing the beauty in the small things in our daily lives... It is these small things that give us new strength and encouragement. Here, I present to you 86 vegetables, including traditional Edo-Tokyo vegetables, that I have personally harvested over the course of 17 years. -Naomi Gunma

Author’s Information

Graduated from the Department of Fine Arts, Tokyo Zokei University, majoring in Painting. During his time at university, he was deeply comforted by the beauty of fresh greenery and the vitality of leaves, which led him to begin creating works with a leaf theme. He then discovered the tempera technique, which allows for more detailed depictions, and developed his current style of painting life-size, as it is. Since 2006, he has been a lecturer on leaf expression at the Setagaya Art Museum "Art University." In 2019, he won the Gold Medal and the Grand Prize at the RHS London Botanical Art Exhibition, sponsored by the British Horticultural Society.