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.