蓮は、出会った途端にそのみずみずしい輝きによって大切なモチーフとなり、今でも折に触れ描いている。 私の故郷、滋賀県の琵琶湖の烏丸半島では蓮が大群生していて2000年の夏からよく通った。水辺に蓮が咲き白い鳥が舞い降りると、前年になくなった母に出会えたかのような気がした。
The lotus became an important motif for me as soon as I encountered it because of its freshness and radiance, and I continue to paint it from time to time. In my hometown, the Karasuma Peninsula on Lake Biwa in Shiga Prefecture, there was a large colony of lotuses, which I have often visited since the summer of 2000. When the lotus blooms on the water’s edge and white birds swoop down, I felt as if I could meet my mother who had died the previous year.