Tomoe Hikita

From 2015 to 2022, Tomoe Hikita pursued her studies at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste

Nürnberg under the mentorship of Professor Susanne Kühn. From 2004 to 2008, she had pursued her Bachelor’s studies at Bunka Gakuen University in Japan.

In the work of Tomoe Hikita lightness of colors is used to recreate, by contrast, an impression

of robustness of the image that dominates unchallenged. Wood becomes the primer that allows the color to acquire an expressiveness that blends with the lines of the painting. Depth and lightness thus assume the role of two fundamental constants in the organic development of the picture, born from the combination of soft and hard materials,

and activated by the spatial impressions that surround it. Hikita develops a peculiar use of

color together with a very personal way of understanding background and foreground.

In her research she condenses a punctual attention to the return of a feeling of painting that feeds on lines, rhythms and shades that change from time to time.