9 Nihonga Gallery Tomoko

Tomoko Dunk was born in Tokyo in 1947.  She works in the Japanese ‘Nihonga’ style in which powdered stones and shells are mixed with ‘nikawa’ glue to produce a water- soluble paint which is then applied to ‘washi’ paper affixed to a light wooden board. Nihonga is a generic term coined in the 19^th Century to distinguish Japanese from Western Art. Tomoko’s works are of a reassuring, other-worldly, spiritual nature.