A Japanese watercolour painter. (b.2003, Osaka) Grew up as part of an expatriate family, and spent her youth in Japan, Singapore and India. As a passionate traveller, she resonates with multiple cultures but feels alienated from all at the same time. Her longing for belonging reflects in her theme, 'Vignette', as a forever-continuous narrative of locations Nohana has inhabited and left. They are moments, in other words snapshots, of places where she was once recognised for her existence by the space.Learned how to paint through oil paint, and steered to watercolour from her second year of undergraduate studies at Camberwell College of Arts. Still young in the long path of mastering the medium, in her practice she experiments with various techniques such as layering and colours.The characters which she portrays in her works have no name. They are inspired by Jizo statues of Japan, which can be seen in their common objective to recognise and guard any people/travellers who come upon their path.
