Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Kaori Kurihara

Japanese artist Kaori Kurihara sculpts fanciful ceramic sculptures of lusciously textured exotic fruits and vegetation, both real and imagined.Born in Osaka, Japan. Kurihana graduated from Seika University of Kyoto with a degree in Fine Arts specializing in Artistic Ceramics.Following graduation, she garnered additional experience studying jewelry-making in France, where she learned the technique of enameling which she now uses to accessorize her sculptures.

Kurihara’s exquisite pieces are heavily inspired by the plant world, especially the shapes and natural geometric repetition of forms in nature, which lend themselves to captivating motifs while also allowing for infinite diversity.She incorporates delicate botanical details with eccentric forms, melding realism with fiction.

It’s difficult not to become mesmerized by the luscious textures and nuanced tones that grace the surface of her strange and enchanting fruits.“I take inspiration from the plant world with particular attention to forms and their geometric repetition,” Kurihara says.

“Every element of nature seems to repeat itself, but in fact there is an infinite variety of it. I have the deep desire to make concrete the fruits represented in my mind and to be able to contemplate them through my own eyes.”