She is known for creating Oil paintings, black and white ink wash paintings on Japanese paper and Ink paintings on canvas.
Rikka Ayasaki art work focuses on painting natural landscapes, for instance mountains and sunsets. However what makes her work remarkably beautiful, is the way she blends colours together to represent what she sees in such depth and detail. In a majority of her paintings, she really focuses on the way colours in the sky collide together to create different subtle colours and tones, still keeping the "zen universe and the dazzling quality of SUMI (Japanese ink) in which her art finds its roots" (1).
When talking about her work the artist has said "Many times, I have been asked why I do not paint in a progressive flow: think while painting, add until satisfactory."(2) Which suggests that she is very dedicated and inspired to making her work to a standard that satisfies her.
She has also said that she creates her work so that "the spectators of my works will lend an ear to the lines they express and participate to the interaction they are calling for." (2)
In a way Ayasaki sees art as a form of a play, as she has expressed her thoughts, that artists are as if screen writers or producers and the colours are the performers.
Here is some of her artwork bellow:
Above - Rikka Ayasaki , Passions, sunset 5006, 2008, acrylic, oil Painting (left) (3) and Rikka Ayasaki, Romance 7021, 2012, acrylic, oil painting) (right) (4)
One of her paintings that I have chosen to analyses is called "Spring haze 7030" created in 2013, using acrylic paint. Here is the painting bellow (5)
This is my favourite Rikka Ayasaki painting, I like it because it is very subtle and calming, she creates something very beautiful and expressive through the use of the right colours, shades and brushstrokes.
I like the fact that her work is not picture clear, leaving the viewers to decide what the image they are looking at is in their perspective.
Personally when I look at this painting, it relaxes me and for some reason makes me sad, I straight away think that this is a sunset somewhere in the hills of the Himalayas, and the whole place is surrounded by emptiness, isolated from the world. There is something very peaceful about it, like this is Ayasaki sharing a moment of beauty, happiness and emotion or emotional state by expressing it through colours, light and tone.
The use of a combination of oil paint colours such as Flesh Tint, Cadmium Red Purple with a hint of Brilliant Yellow-Reddish and O-H Blue Grey, creates a naturalistic and subtle light toned sky effect. The colours combine and blend well together, creating a colour harmony, it is due to the way she does her brush strokes that although the colours are all blended together they still stand out individually, like for instance in "Spring haze 7030" the layering of the colours creates the visual effect of clouds, as well as adding a bit more depth and making the 2D surface appear more 3D.
Rikka Ayasaki does not create clear lines or shapes in this painting, the whole art work is very organic looking, close Enoch to free flowing and regardless to some outline of the clouds and mountains, the whole painting is quite blurred. Texture wise the painting looks quite fine and smooth with no real roughness or coarse etc.
Composition wise, when I first look at the whole painting, the first thing that grabs my attention, somewhat like a focus point, is the dark green mountain on the bottom of the image. Then my eyes are encouraged to follow up and my attention is the grabbed by the mountain on the left and then to the upper mountain on the right side. And only then do I look up to the sky to notice the harmonious colours shown.
I think the reason why Ayasaki created this painting was because she wanted to take the viewer out of reality, to this certain place, to share what it feels like seeing such natural beauty of the sky and nature around us, express to the viewer that it is not only the whole picture that is beautiful but every single detail of it, every individual colour is unique and different, without these little details, the picture would be different, perhaps less stunning.
I believe Rikka Ayasaki's style and technique could relate to my exam question of "closely observing" and the theme of butterflies and their colours, because I really like the idea how she shows colours in her work, she highlights that what matters is not actually what specific subject the picture is of, but what the picture is truly showing, I think this is exactly what suits my theme, because I am more interested in the way lots of different toned and coloured etc. butterflies, put together create this one powerful image, rather than the actual shapes or forms of the butterflies.
However I have previously done an analysis of another artist Rebecca J Coles, whose style and technique of paper assemblages of butterfly silhouettes combined with the way Rikka Ayasaki paints skies etc. could be put together to create a unique piece. I love the way Rikka Ayasaki expresses her ideas, feeling and understandings through colours, and Rebecca J Coles also focuses a lot on colour stories for her work.
So I have already began painting in the style of Rikka Ayasaki, I have created some paintings in her style, and now I am beginning to do paintings of the sky during sunsets, in her style but from my own photographs. And I will try to develop this by combining my own paintings of the sky (in Rikka Ayasaki's style) with similar coloured paper butterflies, to create a combination of a painting and butterfly assemblage (in Rebecca J coles style) The whole idea would be closely observing how little things in a beautiful sky (in this situation it will be various different coloured butterflies) combine and add up together to create the whole thing, as if dozens of butterflies are what make the sky purple or pink.
References:
1) http://ayasaki.free.fr/eg2.rikka.ayasaki,sumi-e,gallery2.html
2) http://ayasaki.free.fr/statement.html
3) http://www.saatchiart.com/art/Painting-Passions-sunset-5006-Painted-in-2008-116x81cm/6134/1517604/view
4) http://www.saatchiart.com/art/Painting-Romance-7021-Painted-in-2012-70x70x5cm/6134/1554747/view
5) http://www.saatchiart.com/art/Painting-Spring-haze-7030-55x46cm-Painted-in-2013/6134/1911688/view
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