Megumi Sato’s works are three-dimensional reliefs rather than paintings.

Using a wooden panel as the base, she paints on primer, followed by layers of oil paint, and then shaves the surface with a chisel or a utility knife. She mixes oil paints and creates clear light pastel colors such as green, pink, blue, orange, and makes eight, or sometimes up to ten layers of paint by applying them over and over again. Each carved line or incision remains sharp, and the image is inspired by the texture of the ridged surface of tree trunks and photomicrographs of plant cells.

The artist was born in Akita, and has lived in Yamagata since she entered university there. She continues her creative activities surrounded by a rich natural environment. She finds vitality and uniqueness in the texture of smooth and rough surfaces of tree trunks in the nearby mountains, feels the stream of time and a memory accumulated in the natural scenery, and expresses them in each layer of paint created by her unique sensibility to color.

She is a young artist who finished graduate school in 2009, but has established her own style, and we would like to introduce her unique works which fuse two-dimensional and three-dimensional representations.