Komachi Goto
I am Japanese artist working and living in Edinburgh, and have been living in UK since 1987 studying Fine Art.
I couldn’t speak English at the beginning, and drawings and paintings became my language to communicate, and with my odd pronunciation, I still rely on “signals” the body language, trying to catch hints and clues between the words.
The “reading between the line” were very important to me in order to build relationship in new environment. I enjoy having conversation with friends but I hesitate to speak out, to avoid awkward moments of repeating questions due to my use of English. This lead myself to be observer and although I do speak out now, I had widen my observing skill to not only in human society but with pets, wild life and plant.
I find there are signals in every creature if I observed long enough. I collect those moments that I noticed and captured them in my mind, then I try to release them in my sketchbook, canvas, or anything I can find to scribble then on, from which I will work and develop them in to often series of paintings.
I couldn’t speak English at the beginning, and drawings and paintings became my language to communicate, and with my odd pronunciation, I still rely on “signals” the body language, trying to catch hints and clues between the words.
The “reading between the line” were very important to me in order to build relationship in new environment. I enjoy having conversation with friends but I hesitate to speak out, to avoid awkward moments of repeating questions due to my use of English. This lead myself to be observer and although I do speak out now, I had widen my observing skill to not only in human society but with pets, wild life and plant.
I find there are signals in every creature if I observed long enough. I collect those moments that I noticed and captured them in my mind, then I try to release them in my sketchbook, canvas, or anything I can find to scribble then on, from which I will work and develop them in to often series of paintings.
