Sydney Contemporary
Hiroshi Senju
WATERFALL 2014
Acrylic and fluorescent pigments on Japanese mulberry paper (259 x 194cm)
WATERFALL, 2014
I fell in love with this painting the moment I saw it. Which is a significant statement considering I was at Sydney Contemporary at the time and surrounded by hundreds (possibly even 1000s) of paintings. It is difficult to stand out amongst so much work and yet this piece did.
Hiroshi Senju uses a 1,000-year-old Japanese technique known as nihonga - a western term coined for a Japanese process that involves only using materials sourced from nature.
Senju has focused almost his entire career on waterfalls, however, a decade ago he also started to paint cliff faces. His process is shown in the two videos below:
My client, Hiroshi Senju, one of Japan's most revered contemporary artists, painted twenty full-scale murals for the Japanese House and Garden, Shofuso, in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia. He asked me to produce a video profile of his career highlights for the American press, and this piece was the result of our collaboration.
Uploaded by Sundaram Tagore on 2017-10-13.
