Naoko Stoop is a New York based Japanese illustrator. She graduated from Keio University in Tokyo, and New York School of Interior Design. She grew up in Tokyo, and creating in New York.
Her artwork comes from everyday life in her neighborhood. She gets inspiration from beautiful Prospect Park. It is also her second work place in summer. She is trying to bring out the five-year old in people through her artwork. It is because she believes that is the last moment before children start learning how complicated the world is, and that was when she once stopped drawing. It took her decades to come back to herself. That’s what she produced the “Red Knit Cap Girls” series.
“Brown Paper Bag Collection” is another fascinating works creating with used papers: old books, newspapers, magazines, wrapping paper, letters and envelopes. She uses used and folded brown paper bags as her canvas. They are already given a sense of purpose in the previous forms. It is like detatching them from their old roles and combining with her mischievous drawings to create something old and new. After spending long experiments with paper and inks, she established a way to draw on used paper bags without losing the color and texture of the medium. Drawing living things is central to her exploration of life. Combining this with painting, collage, and printmaking, she is trying to create images that project the beauty in life.
Suzanne Woolcott lives and works in Glasgow, Scotland. Her artworks had exhibited in many galleries all over England and the USA.
Her art is a deep expression of a somewhat lost childhood innocence in all of us. It resembles a need to find reason in what we see, it challenges our thoughts of comfort, safety and social acceptance, it challenges our preconceived ideas of childhood. It touches on the taboos of bringing children and death closer than is normally comfortable and evokes a sense of overwhelming calmness, and perhaps contempt to the viewer. Abandonment features heavily, the sense of loss and longing; and of being alone in the world.
The sheer stillness of her gorjuss girls poses are accentuated with the movement around them, in their flowing hair or landscapes. Offering what seems like just a brief moment of their world, catching a glimpse of their lives and their emotions. The girls’ featureless faces force the surrounding paintings into describing the scene for the viewer. Their faces lack of form are more childlike, and the lack of emotion is tinged with powerful wounded messages of grief tinged with hope.
Naoko Stoop, and Suzanne Woolcott are the FIRST time showing their works in Tokyo, Japan; represented by petit morpho, Hong Kong. We will show you their signature Original artworks: “Red Knit Cap Girls” “Brown Paper Bag Collection”, and “Gorjuss Girls”. It is also freely check out their works at www.brownpaperbagcollection.com, and www.gorjuss.co.uk, respectively.
