This is the collection of the images of cherry blossoms on paper. 
Creating 3 art works from this collection Sakura Saku I - III commissioned by The Ned London for their faux stained-glass to celebrate Sakura season 2025 and the project also sponsored by renown company Suntory.
Sakura Saku IV -  VI created at the same time and they can also work as a triptych (I - III or IV  - VI ).

Sakura Saku (桜咲く) - Cherry Blossoms are blossoming on paper

The site specific installation work commissioned by Watts Gallery, Guildford in 2024. The work created as a part of Edo Pop: Japanese Prints 18925 - 1925 exhibition from 19 March to 6 October 2024.

Sakura Saku (Cherry blossoms are Blossoming)

Images in this collection are from English gardens of my friends.

Summer Garden

The print works created at Chinese National Printmaking Studio: the Guanlan Original Printmaking Base, Shenzhen, China during her residency in April -May 2018 and professionally printed by their printers.

After the successful interactive installation work: Making Waves - the official event of 'Hokusai, Beyond the Great Wave’ in the Great Court of the British Museum last year, Imada decided to produce a continuity of images - 'Shapes of Water' in different formats. Inspired by Hokusai’s
‘Great Wave’, Imada presents her own approach to ‘Shapes of Water’.
Her unique abstract style is very bold and dynamic yet evocative and delicate, seeking to stimulate and broaden the viewer's imagination.


Shapes of Water Black & White

After the successful interactive installation work: Making Waves - the
official event of 'Hokusai, Beyond the Great Wave’ in the Great Court of
the British Museum last year, Imada decided to produce a continuity of
images - 'Shapes of Water' in  different formats. Inspired by Hokusai’s
‘Great Wave’, Imada presents her own approach to ‘Shapes of Water’.
Her unique abstract style is very bold and dynamic yet evocative and
delicate, seeking to stimulate and broaden the viewer's imagination.

Shapes of Water

The collection of works featured on Saatchi Art.

Saatchi Art featured works

These are the collection of Black & White print works on Nature in abstract format. 

Black & White print works

The works are created as a part of series called 'Finlandia Rhapsody' which caputures different faces of Finnish nature.The work first shown to public in September 2015 in Finland as a solo exhibition produced by Vantaa Cultural Services, Finland.


Finlandia Rhapsody - Black & White Drawings

All the works here is created for the solo exhibition produced by Vantaa Cultural Services, Finland in September - October 2015. 
The images based on Finnish nature captured by Japanese eyes in different seasons and approached by different types of techniques.

Finlandia Rhapsody

In 1999, in the U.K., there was a total eclipse. Just after that, I regularly started to dream about Aurora and rainbows while sleeping. I am not sure if there is a reason for it or not, but I decided to record these images as a picture. Though I have seen rainbows from time to time, I have never seen Aurora. So this is the collection of the images from my dream.

Northern Lights - Aurora

Ballet has always been an art form which has excited me; I find the connection between music and movement fascinating. I have been exploring this connection, and its link with the visual arts in my work. 
It was a sensational moment when I realized that I could relate my ideas about music and movement to my brush-stroke and so interpret the world of ballet in my art work. Learning to control a brush requires much training and experience, but this is art only at its technical level. To bring it alive, the artist has to put oneself into the world one wants to interpret, and combine one’s own feeling towards the subject with the brush-stroke every moment that one uses the brush.
Inspired by the Royal Ballet production ‘Firebird’, I exp

Firebird

It is the connection between music and movement in dance that fascinates me. Dancers have the gift of creating the most beautiful movements and curves of which the human body is capable. The effect on me is not only visual, but physical; I feel the movements in my own body. As dancers respond to music to create their art, I respond to visual and physical stimuli too, and am left with a deposit of ‘after images’ - pictures, impressions, feelings. I transfer these into my brush - stroke.


Dance & Movement

When I look back on my childhood, I am reminded that my memory at that time was full of images of Nature; shapes of trees, sounds of water, the smell of grass, etc. They are not only visual images but also bodily sensation images, sound images, and so on. My old image still exists as my main interest. 
When I am in an open space in Nature alone, I always feel as if I become a part of it. I can feel the movement and sound of it as I see its visual imagery. I am very much interested in expressing the images which I feel in Nature. I am trying to transfer my bodily sensations into my brush movement and visual images into colour. 
Traces and motions act as a very important element in my work. They also reflect Japanese concepts such as â€˜MAâ

Nature

It is a long time since I came to London. My memories of Japan fade with the passing of each day. However, certain things will always remain vivid; in particular the colours and images of the four seasons, especially because they are linked with other memories which are unforgettably clear to me. In this series, I was trying to explore the link between my personal and pictorial memories of the four seasons in Japan.
Surely, I believe the Japanese in general have a strong feeling for cherry blossom. I am not the exception. Cherry blossom has always meant something special to me. Many of my memories of spring in Japan are linked with these flowers. When cherry trees are in blossom it is impossible to resist their beauty, even if it makes you

Japanese Scenery

I had an exhibition titled ‘Les Sylphides - Chopiniana - onto the Air’ in 1996. In this exhibition, the works I presented were all related to the ballet called ‘Les Sylphides’. This ballet is a 20th century ‘ballet blanc’. Colours in the ballet are therefore restricted, so I have worked hard to express my ideas about colour, without disturbing the dominating colour of the original production. This has been a difficult challenge. Also, there is no story to the ballet, and this abstract quality, for me, makes the connection between the music and movement clearer. 
This exhibition included prints, acrylic paintings, costume drawings, a half - size  costume made from my design, and a theatre model. The aim was to present a single s

Hiroko Imada