Okamoto Bishowa Bikram Gurung

Born in Hyogo Prefecture in 1999

Graduated from Kyoto University of Arts Japanese Painting Course in 2022

Produced currently based in Kyoto

The act of “drawing a picture” and “painting colors” makes me focus my mind. Or I think it's an acceptable time for me to fantasize.

While drawing pictures by painting colors and drawing lines, I am having fun, suffering, calming down, concentrating, and thinking about something.

As I paint colors on the canvas, it becomes a “picture I drew.” I looked at the picture I was drawing and found something lacking, such as that red is needed there, black here, this line is still thin, and there are still few colors. To bring the picture I'm looking at now closer to the beauty I like.

The feeling that I have from beginning to end until completion is still not enough. As long as the “beauty” I want isn't realized on canvas, I'm still drawing.

I never really fell in love with my paintings from the beginning. But the picture on the way to completion is also mine. From the first stroke, it's my picture. To the extreme, I think my paintings started even before the time I prepared the canvas. If you go back, there's no end.

I began to think that my painting had already started.