About HIROMI
こんにちは。ひろみです。
ご興味を持っていただき、ありがとうございます。
私は水彩画とかな書道で作品を作っています。
日本の野鳥を中心に、鳥の姿を通して私たち日本人の霊性を表現し
かな書道を通じて、私たち日本人が心柔らかになる「線」を追求しています。
作品を通じて、あなたの心に柔らかな気持ちが届くと嬉しいです。
思い返せば、20〜30代のすべてをかけて、世界中の美術品を100万点以上観てきました。
国内大手の美術品オークション会社で日本陶芸を中心に知識を深めた後、ギャラリーでの修行を経て、ニューヨーク、ロンドン、パリ、オランダ、ベルギー、そしてもちろん国内でも、主要な博物館・美術館や画廊、アートフェアを、文字通り「取り憑かれたように」巡ってきました。
美術品との対話、美しい作品を作るに至った作家への敬意、そして人の目や手を通して翻訳される世界も素晴らしく美しい解釈であることの感動。我を忘れ、時間も世界も止まる、あの神聖なひととき。
その中で私が肌で学んだ「良き作品」とは、希望や激励、癒しを与えてくれるものです。観ることでこちらから語りかけ、あちらからも語り返してくれる。そっと、微かに確かに、ある感覚やメッセージが浮かんでくる。
芸術は人に幸せのきっかけを見つけさせてくれる。
ずっとそう信じています。
そして私もそんな作品を残せるよう、
今日も真剣に生きてまいります。
Hiromi Moritaka is Japan based realistic watercolor artist.
With her highly sensitiveness, she is inspired by the bird song, scent of flowers or even a breeze. She translates her positive hope onto bird illustrations with delicate brush strokes.
Her name HIROMI means abundance of beauty, in Japanese.
Finding abundance of beauty around us and affirming it on papers, is her joy in life.
Hiromi has poured the whole of her twenties and thirties into art, encountering more than a million works from all over the world.
Her deep dive into the art world truly accelerated in her late twenties when she joined a leading Japanese art auction house, deepening her knowledge with a focus on Japanese ceramics. After gaining hands-on experience at an art gallery, she took on a corporate role as a secretary—but every long vacation was consumed by a literal obsession. She swept through New York, London, Paris, the Netherlands, Belgium, and across Japan, relentlessly exploring major museums, galleries, and art fairs.
The intimate dialogue with art, the reverence for artists who achieve such beauty, and the profound realization that the world, when translated through human sight and touch, is breathtakingly beautiful—these moments were sacred to her. They made her forget herself, completely freezing both time and space.
What her skin and soul have taught her is that a "good work of art" is a vessel of hope, encouragement, and healing. To look at it is to start a conversation; the piece speaks back. Softly, faintly, but with absolute certainty, a feeling or a message rises to the surface.
Hiromi holds a lifelong belief: art is what ignites positive energy within us.
How does she paint ?
This is the procedure she paints realistic watercolor birds.
1.Get inspiration
When she feels strong connection with a subject, she makes several sketches.
2.Chose a pose
From the sketches she choses a pose. Draws on a proper cotton paper.
3.Light colors
As the first layer, she colors lightest colors.
Mainly uses big brushes like #6-9.
4.Shadows
As the second layer, she colors shadow parts.
5.Layers and layers...
Each layer is with pale colors. Before going to the next layer, it's dried for a half/a couple of hours(depends on the weather or paper).
It needs patience but is efficiant for keeping each color active.
For only this procedure, it takes between 10-20hours(without dry out time).
6.Details
With the thinnest brush and the darkest paint, she paints the detail.
Sometimes it's not visible from normal distance of the viewer eyes but it's her secret to make the subject arive.
7.Eyes
At last she makes sure if it has a soul. By its eyes, she knows.
Materials
-watercolor paints: winsor&newton(main), schmincke, daniel smith
-paint brushes: Raphaël 8404/8400, Rembrandt 100
-cotton paper: arches hot pressed 300gsm, waterford hot press 425gsm
-(some times)color pencils: mitsubishi uni, carand'ache