Ewa FUKUOKA (b. 1954 ), Japanese Garden - full summer; 2016

oil, canvas; 60 x 80 cm
Signature p. d.: Ewa K. Fukuoka
Signed, dated, inscribed on back: Ewa Tomporek- Fukuoka "Japanese Garden".

The artist graduated from the State High School of Fine Arts in Lodz. She took up studies at the Academy of Fine Arts at the Faculty of Design. After the third year of her studies, she went abroad. Her stay in Japan in 1985-1991 became an inexhaustible source of creative fascination for the author. In 2012, she was admitted to the ZPAP on the basis of her artistic achievements. In the meantime, she graduated from cultural studies at the University of Lodz.
Direct contact with the civilization of Japan has caused her to further deepen her studies of the phenomena different from and common to Eastern and Western Culture, which is the constant subject of the author's appearances in the media, papers presented at scientific conferences and publications.
She has served on the program boards and councils of the Center for Japanese Sports and Culture, the Surei-no-Mon Foundation, the Ai Foundation, the Yakumo-Goto Club, and the Leaders Club.
From June 2017 to the present, she has served as president of the Association of Polish Artists of the Lodz District.
Her paintings, presented in numerous exhibitions, are inspired by the art and landscape motifs of Japan. Japanese gardens are a favorite theme of the artist's works, they express the spirit of ZEN, that is, the transcendent relationship between man and Nature. The work "Japanese Garden- Full Summer" is an expression of love of beauty and harmony linking man and Nature.