The Lighthouse

A glimpse into my world...

My new adventure - Nagomi Healing Art!

For the exhibition on March 8, International Women's Day, G-Hotel, Penang.

I like to paint strong, bold or obnoxious women. I like to paint round, fat and voluptuous women w hich give the impression of warmth and steadfastness. My objects flow into each other and into all spaces; the dots show the interconnectedness of humans and their surroundings. There is no blank in this world.

“Explore your seventh sense...transcend the boundaries of your own imagination”.

You will find my women in compromising positions, either in love, exploring their physical sexuality, their spirituality, or in leisure, free from fear, guilt or shame. Nudity bordering on eroticism is equally prominent in my artwork as a direct response to the conservative and repressive society in which we live, for example, lack or no freedom in expressing religious, political or sexual preferences.

“Only when a woman is able to transcend her cultural, religious and racial boundaries, could she be empowered”. Women, and the environment they live in (physical or political), and the relationships they have feature very strongly in my work. But the women I paint are seldom (or never) in their traditional roles – roles dictated by a capitalist, male dominated world.

Is it surrealism, abstract expressionism or simply naive? I do not wish to replicate reality in my paintings but the message in my work is very real. Visible in my art is some form of resistance towards the given (traditional and conservative structures, rules and norms in art, e.g. perspective). There is no shading, shadow or strokes to define perspective or time. Perspective and the concept of time are defined by the conceptual rather than the physical.

Art, for me, is not only therapeutic, but a creative process that is very personal, private and yet political.

Waking up next to you....I get a headache :-)

The colors of a prayer...

Young single mother: come, child, let me comfort you...

Behind a woman's sarong....

Woman and three fishes

Mixed media: ink + digital art

Tree of life

Mixed media: oils on paper, digital art

Hell hole

Mixed media: ink, digital art on paper.

Storm at sea

Oils on paper.

Meditation.

Woman meditating, heart and mind seeing, no arms, for her tasks in this world is complete.

Untitled.

Altantuya?

The "eye"

Seeing the seen and unseen, feeling the felt and unfelt, knowing the known and unknown...

A tiger never sleeps.

You don't bring me flowers anymore...

Oil on cardboard.

I had to do still life today which I don't like so much. This is the result :=(

Women in oil

Fluidity and colors is the key to a harmonious life...



"Women", oil, 375x530mm



"orgasm", oil, 375x530mm



"Flurry", oil, 375x530mm

My abstract view of Chinese symbols

"8 fishes", oil on paper, 375x530mm



"Herald", oil, 375x530mm



"The Tao", oil on paper, 375/530mm.



"Justice", oil on paper, 375x530mm

Tonight, I painted faces, too, of anger and sadness.



"Anger", oil on paper, 375x530mm



"Sad", oil on paper, 375x530mm

Bury me and I shall still live

Bury me, lock me away
stash me underground
Still I shall breathe
Still I shall live.

Modern Art

My journey into modern art begins with a sense of freedom.

1. Wounded



2. We are all different



3. World Dance



4. Sharing colorful, crazy thoughts




Medium (for all the above): Acrylics on paper, 37x55cm.

The garden fairy & other women

1. Garden Fairy

She just appeared, and refused to leave.
And if I refused to paint her,
she would cast a spell over me.
Turning me into a tree, or a leaf,
or a flower.
I don't really mind,
But if that ever happenned,
I would never be able to leave.
To be myself again.
The garden fairy awaits you,
She is the reason why you lose your way.
Will she help you find your way back?

2. Red-faced woman

Don't mess around with the red-faced woman. She's got snakes on her head. She is not Medusa, but just a very angry woman!

3. Pregnant woman meditating


All paintings in acrylics on paper, 37x55cm.

Letting go...

Medium = acrylics on paper, 37x55cm.

It's not always easy to let go, the pain, the suffering, the tears, and the unfulfilled dreams.