Shiina is a Japanese-born, London-based artist who creates intuitive, emotionally driven paintings using Japanese calligraphy brushes, acrylic paint, and Japanese washi paper. Her works emerge without preconception—free from structure or deliberate design—capturing feelings that resist explanation. Each piece is a spontaneous, one-of-a-kind expression of the moment, guided by impulse and sensation.
She paints with tools that feel like extensions of herself: brushes she has used since childhood let her emotions flow directly through her hand, while acrylics suit the layered abstraction shaped by her Western training in art and design. Washi paper, with its soft irregularities and organic texture, absorbs each mark with warmth and sincerity—becoming a medium through which emotion is received, not merely recorded.
Rather than following traditional Japanese forms, Shiina draws from their underlying sensibility: the belief that beauty exists in what cannot be seen or fully grasped—in imperfection, transience, and atmosphere. In keeping with the Japanese view that tradition lives through values rather than appearance, she carries this quiet aesthetic spirit into her own language of abstraction.
For Shiina, painting is not about control, messaging, or visual impact—it is about releasing raw emotion, just as it is. In a world full of noise and performance, her work embraces imperfection, vulnerability, and honesty. It invites the viewer not to analyse, but simply to feel.
日本生まれ、ロンドン拠点のアーティスト。書道筆、アクリル絵の具、和紙を用いて、直感的で感情に導かれた絵画作品を制作している。作品は全て、構成や計画にとらわれず、その瞬間の感情に突き動かされて生まれる一度きりの形。
幼少期から使い続けてきた書道筆は、身体の一部のように自然に感情を手に伝える道具であり、アクリル絵具は西洋で学んだアートとデザインの重なりを活かし、抽象的な表現を生み出す。和紙は、その柔らかで不均一な質感が感情の揺らぎを温かく受けとめ、描写以上に“感情を吸収する”媒体となる。
伝統的な日本芸術の形式をなぞるのではなく、その根底にある美意識 “目に見えないものに宿る美”、形そのものではなく精神を継承する日本的な美意識に基づき、抽象的な表現の中に静かな美の精神を受け継いでいる。
彼女にとっての制作とは何かを伝えるための手段ではなく、ただ感情をそのまま外に解き放つ行為。過剰な演出や説明があふれる現代において、不完全さや脆さ、正直さを大切にし、見る人に“感じる”ことを促している。