Using mixed medium, Tomobe expresses her ideas
in both two and three dimensions. Her work has been shown
at The Boston Printmakers North American Print Biennial, Boston,
MA • Medialia... Rack and Hamper Gallery, New York, NY
• Mini Print International Cadaques, Barcelona, Spain
• Asian Arts Initiative, Philadelphia, PA • Art
Works Gallery, Mito City, Japan • FIDEM XXIX Congress
(International Art Medal Congress), Seixal, Portugal •
FIDEM XXVIII Congress, Paris, France.
Tomobe became interested in landscape drawing
when she attended a Painting/Drawing Session at Chateau de
Balleroy, Normandy, France, in the summer of 2004. This two-week
trip was awarded by New York Academy of Art to students demonstrating
academic excellence. In Normandy, she worked intensively from
observation and under markedly varied weather conditions.
During this trip, Tomobe's new experience in nature merged
with her concentration on human figures and portraits. She
is also interested in the aspect of miniaturized landscape,
such as topiary and bonsai. Tomobe chose pen and ink as her
primary drawing material for the immediacy of effect.
This unique exhibition, DENATURAL, is a series
of work from observed nature combined with her own imagined
world.
This exhibition at Medialia... Rack and Hamper
Gallery is Tomobe's first solo exhibition.