Hakone Painting

Yu Kuramitsu is a Japanese oil painter who expresses spirits. She started taking art classes at Atelier Kawado at the age of 10. She enhanced her sensibility by painting in oil or pastel for 12 years of the classes and additional 3 years at an art high school. In 2012, Yu participated in artist in residency in Pushkinskaya-10, Saint Petersburg, Russia. Her solo exhibition achieved to be included in the event "Japanese Spring" supported by Japanese Consulate in Saint Petersburg. She had a collective exhibition at the Museum of Non-Conformist Art, Saint Petersburg, in 2015, included in the art festival “New Names” supported by the Ministry of Culture of Russian Federation. Her world features human relationships and love, dialogue with the universe and nature. She paints the grief over your loved one’s death, joy in the relationship, agony and sorrow in the depth of the heart by painting free shapes, strokes and colors. Her style is abstract, and her main color Blue harmonizes with other colors as harmony is important for humans.