Hiroko Kato

2001, Japan, Painting

The dynamic movement of the Universe Seen through the overlapping pentagons In the lotus leaves. By painting leaves of the lotus in overlapping pentagons, the painter expresses the power of the Universe, the power to move this planet Earth just as Jung expressed the “movement of physical matter “in the number “five”. It is...

Hiroko Kato

2002, Japan, Painting

I am sad yet not alone Being supported There are sporadic moments of happy dreams The painting depicts two people; the person at the back is staying closely to the person in front as if to bring comfort. Having suffered leprosy, it was an unhappy life but there were happy moments, at times, when encouraged by people whom...

Hiroko Kato

2009, Japan, Painting

The moon Reflecting on the tiny surface of the pond Where nymphs enjoy bathing tonight The forest fairies are bathing happily in a pond on a moonlit night.

Hiroko Kato

2003, Japan, Painting

The painting of two cranes A gift of a friend I cherish it forever in my heart In a form of animation A friend called Shiota- san gave me a red cushion for my 60th birthday. Shiota-san has since passed away. The design of two cranes on the cushion is always in my heart together with the memory of my friend.

Hiroko Kato

2001, Japan, Painting

It is a primitive painting with no depth So true It is but like a background picture How the years have drifted away since A pond painted in reminiscence. The pond was situated by the girls’ dormitory of Niirada High School of Nagashima Aisei-en where the painter graduated. It was her early days of oil painting and the poe...

Hiroko Kato

2005, Japan, Painting

The days of pain and illness are especially sad and lonely. But daylight pours in from the window and brings visitors by forcefully opening the window saying, “Hello! Hello! We don’t want loneliness”. This is a blessing. People with different colors of the skin portrayed from different countries, across borders, is a manifes...

Hiroko Kato

2009, Japan, Painting

With her chin resting on one hand Reminds me of the painter Modigliani Her emerald eyes and orange skin The girl with her chin resting on one hand reminds me of the Italian painter, Modigliani. Eyes are emerald green but the skin is orange which has a faint image of the Orient.

Hiroko Kato

2001, Japan, Painting

Even the distorted turquoise blue eye Is a blessing My thoughts wander into the spirit of time immemorial Through all ages and civilization there was a culture where handicap was considered a blessing, expressed as “spirit of time immemorial”. For example, in Japan, the gods that appear in the Kojiki (Japan’s oldest record)...

Hiroko Kato

2001, Japan, Painting

A pointed element, the moon Over a gentle mountain of the fairy-tale world Is somehow an alien element The forced isolation institution where the painter was resident in the past is a world that is normally an unlikely world. This normally unrealistic world is expressed as a world of fairy-tale in the painting while the c...