筒井 京子 Kyoko Tsutsui

“Linescape, Formgraph”
Kyoko Tsutsui is a painter who explores the possibilities of oil painting through lines and forms. Her ongoing “Lines and Forms” series, first presented around 1995, has remained a central theme since she began pursuing abstraction. In her studio, she arranges around thirty canvases prepared with underpainting and color, then responds to the rising impulses within her, inscribing them onto the surface with unconventional tools such as forks and nails. The artist explains that lines are the skeletal framework of her works, while forms are the minimal elements needed to support that framework. Energetic, continuous lines convey both dynamism and speed, while the placement of red circles, black squares, and other forms punctuate the canvas, heightening the sense of flow and movement. Her works combine the refined and technical with the primordial and elemental, a coexistence that, she believes, mirrors the balance inherent in nature itself. For Tsutsui, holding opposites within a single painting leads toward her ultimate aim: to create works that exist within the natural world without discord.