Momokei is Japanese and lives in Japan. She grew up in a beautiful rural area where she painted from morning till night.

The starting point of her art was in 2019, when a deep blue of sadness ran through her body and she started drawing large amounts of blue lines to drain it. Later she realised that the blue was not the colour of sadness, but the colour of love, which spread like an ocean deep underneath.
Since then, she has been creating paintings based on blue to tell the world what is important in life. Blue, once the tears of sadness, has been sublimated into a gentle beauty, dressed in gold and platinum glitter.

She trusts the senses of her hands, which have been used for various domestic tasks, and she uses her bare hands for maturing and painting, especially on canvas. She paints on paper using Japanese brushes and a watercolour technique that makes use of the presence of water, but her art also penetrates everyday objects such as knitwear and porcelain.

She believes that the innocent art of children is the most important thing to emulate, and Japan’s unique culture of cute characters has been an integral part of her development. When she unconsciously moves her hands, they appear as friends and allies, showing us with humour that miracles and art exist in the everyday life we take for granted. There are margins in her paintings, and the ‘absence’ of them, conversely, evokes what is there. It is an aesthetic she shares with the simplicity of traditional Japanese culture, familiar to her since childhood.

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