Ai Ikeda est une artiste japonaise, qui s'est prise de passion pour la gravure sur linoléum. Elle a été prise sous l'aile du maître graveur Yasushiko Kida en tant qu'assistante.
Ai Ikeda is a Japanese artist born in 1983, living between Japan and Switzerland.
Her work mixes different techniques: watercolor, wood engraving, Ink, resin and dry flowers. Her original work also mixes traditional Japanese style with more contemporary influences, as well as a sense for details and love for calligraphy.
While specializing in photography studies at university, she fell in love with linoleum engraving. Starting slowly alone, she was taken under the wing of master engraver Yasuhiko Kida as an assistant.
She decided to stop her studies in photography to work 100% on her new passion, wood engraving. Her skills as well as her knowledge of traditional Japanese techniques blend with her love for other Western artists. Her varied influences give her line a touch of multiculturalism on a traditional Japanese background that amazes the imagination.
Some influences
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Aubrey Beardsley
Jan Švankmajer
Eva Švankmajerová
Uno Akira
Mother Nature
Although her themes are varied, we find in almost all of her pieces the central theme of women and nature, and this especially since the birth of her first child.
Exhibitions Highlights
July 2018 / Larme mère
H.P.France Window Gallery Marunouchi, Tokyo, Japan
October 2018 / Larmes & Tarot Cards
Omotesando Art Fair, Tokyo, Japan
August 2020 / Portraits & Kotowaza
H.P.France Window Gallery Marunouchi, Tokyo, Japan
October 2021 / Poya & Mère Sereine
Trace-Ecart, Bulle, Switzerland
