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Nobuo Okawa
Nobuo Okawa was born in Tokyo in 1949 but came to the UK to study at St. Martins School of Art in the late 1970s. It was there that he became interested in the mezzotint process of printmaking, which is a painstaking process that is the only type of intaglio printmaking in which the artist works from dark to light. Nobuo is a leading figure in the field and his work has been compared to that of his great predecessor, Hamaguchi Yozo. The British Museum has 17 of his prints in their permanent collection; he has had a solo exhibition in Tokyo and has been under contract to a leading New York gallery in the past. Ten of Nobuo’s mezzotints will be on show alongside his and the other artists teabowls, including the two below. All will be available framed or unframed but a few of the examples are now down to the last two copies. Nobuo took up pottery in 1989, with encouragement from his friends and ceramicists Margaret O’Rorke and Gilles Le Corre. He has shown his pots in a number of mixed exhibitions. Including several at Galerie Besson, culminating in being one of “Five Japanese Potters” in the exhibition of that name staged by Anita Besson two years ago. Besides his mezzotints there will be 12 of his teabowls in the exhibition and we will be serving sake at the Private View from his sake cups. Below are examples of Nobuo's work included in the exhibition.
Small teabowl. Height: 6.3cm (2.5") Diameter: 12.0 by 11.0cm (4.75” by 4.3")		Mezzotint 881. Image: 15.5 by 16.5cm Paper: 38.0 by 38.0cm
Mezzotint 87171. Image: 10.0 by 11.0cm Paper: 28.5 by 38.0cm		Shoe shaped teabowl. Height: 7.0cm (2.75") Diameter: 15.25cm (6.0") SOLD Other teabowls are still available.
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