Two week pedestal spotlight with artisan Iori Uchihata
Artisan Iori Uchihata will be displaying her artwork in a two week pedestal spotlight from April 11 through April 24th at 789 NW Beach Drive in Newport Oregon. The Nye Beach Gallery is open daily from 11 to 4 pm.
Artist Iori Uchihata left her native place in Tokyo, Japan and came to the Oregon Coast a short while after the turn of the millennium. As a working mother of three children, she never had time for art until the children had all grown up. Fascinated by brightly colored designs of kimono, her early art work focused on paintings of kimono-clad Japanese women. She soon discovered that Japanese origami (paper folding) using intricately patterned multicolored washi paper is tremendously popular here in her adopted home of Oregon as well and she also began experimenting with a variety of other media. “My newest challenge is using oyster shells as my canvas,” she tells us. “Oyster shells are a treasure from the sea, and using them as my canvas is exciting and stimulating!”
Iori’s work including several pieces painted on her latest canvas “the oyster shell” will be on display at Yaquina Art Gallery …
“Ship”
“Dragon”
“Mermaid2”
