Haruta Sara

Oriental surrealism “fairy world”

Paintings are a place of encounter with “fairies.” A “fairy” is not a so-called fairy in the West, but rather a more polystical entity, and it is a form of ancestral spirits and spirits that Japanese people have discovered in the mountains. It is also an imaginary concept called by Henri Corvin, and it is also an archetypal image that lives deep in our consciousness. I paint paintings in order to meet “fairies” and because I want to see them, and I express their peaceful place as a world in the middle of the picture.
Henri Corbin believes that “imaginary concepts” exist in a world without material, and he assumes that the real world is a shadow of those. This being, also called an “angel,” certainly exists in a phase different from the dimension we are in, and that is the same reality that I think about “fairies.” “Fairies” live in a fantasy world called the “fairy world,” and it can be said that it is a different world imagined by humans.
Furthermore, if we go back to them, we reach the most fundamental domain of human perception = the realm of God. In other words, in order to touch even a small glimpse of God, I would like to capture “fairies” drifting in the middle between the deep layers of collective unconsciousness and crystallize them, and visualize as many “fairies” as possible.
To that end, serendipity, which becomes important in surrealism, is necessary as a ceremony to invite “fairies” into the picture. This coincidence is brought about by introducing unknown effects that cannot be controlled into the painting while using various art materials, especially pigments, as particles. As a result, the figure of a fairy emerges from the depths of the picture. By carefully capturing them, I can crystallize “fairies” and keep them in my paintings forever.
Mysterious colors and patterns brought about by “pigments” such as mineral pigments, gypsum particles, and crushed colored pencils seem to have existed in nature since time immemorial. As I stare closely at the inside of the picture, stains from paint and overlapping layers of drawing can sometimes be seen in the form of some kind of living thing. There are even times when I feel an outpouring of dynamism, as if they were wobbling. By imagining them just a little bit, I can encounter “fairies” appearing from the other side of the picture.

exhibition
2025 7senies/Daimaru Tokyo Gallery/Tokyo
2025 Winter MITSUKOSHI Art Week/Three Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi Event Hall/Nihonbashi
2024 GROUP SHOW/Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi Contemporary Gallery/Nihonbashi
2023 WATOWA ART AWARD 2023 EXHIBITION/ WATOWA GALLERY/ ASAKUSA
2023 The 6th Prophecy The 6th Prophecy -Chapter 1 “Flashing Esquisse” /Seibu Shibuya/Shibuya
2023 Geidai Mythology GEISHIN/Geidai Art Plaza/Ueno
2022 Tokyo University of the Arts Doctoral Examination Exhibition/Tokyo University of the Arts Museum/Ueno
2022 Comite Colbert Awards 2022/Tokyo University of the Arts Museum/Ueno
2022 Tsukuba Prize Painting Exhibition 2022/Studio's /Ibaraki Prefecture
2021 Young Artists' Show 2021/galleryA8T/Sendai
2020 Kamiyama Foundation 6th Graduation Achievement Exhibition (Award-Winning Works) /AXIS Gallery/Roppongi
Sato Museum of Art 29th Scholarship Student Art Exhibition/Sato Museum of Art/Shinjuku
2019 67th Tokyo University of the Arts Graduation and Completion Works Exhibition/Tokyo University of the Arts/Ueno
Kamiyama Foundation 5th Graduation Achievement Exhibition/FEI ART MUSEUM YOKOHAMA/Yokohama
Small painting exhibition/Geidai Art Plaza/Ueno
Alternative Paint/Electric Cultural Hall/Nagoya
4Clover Exhibition/Ginza Surugadai Gallery/Ginza
2018 52nd Les Poires Exhibition/Ginza Surugadai Gallery/Ginza
Call Feeling/Trappis & Cookie/Slow Gallery/Kokubunji Award
2017 2074, The World of Dreams/Tokyo University of the Arts Museum/Ueno
TUASUKI/Shinjuku Ophthalmology Gallery/Shinjuku
2016 Otome Exhibition/Gallery Child's Star/Daikanyama
2015 In the Air/ Arts Chiyoda 3331/Akihabara

Award
2025 LIFE LAND SHIBUYA ART AWARD GRAND PRIX
2023 WATOWA ART AWARD 2023 FINALIST
2019 Teikyo University Purchase Award
Sato International Cultural Education Foundation Sato Art Museum Scholarship
Kamiyama Foundation 5th Graduation Achievement Exhibition “Excellence Award”
2017 Taito City Mayor's Award, Mr. O Memorial Award
Kamiyama Foundation Art Support Program Scholarship 4th Year Student