A young, gifted artist from Japan, equipped with a sharp-witted eye for detail, Tomita Natsumi was born in Tokyo in 1986, and embarked on an oil painting course at Tama Art University, in her hometown, at the tender age of 19. Since 2007, her promising artistic career has witnessed several solo exhibitions, and participation in Asian art fairs to date, as well as having her works under the collection of renowned Japanese art institutions, such as the Hamada Children’s Museum of Art. In par with her witty, atypical perspectives, a variety of quirky, unlikely mediums have been utilised; materials that are interestingly, elementary to everyday life, and no doubt, far less employed in the artistic realm. 

Tomita, however, youthful and rebellious, unconventionally employs the bare essentials to convey her impressions of the world, as she strives to reassess one’s tidings with the natural environment, specifically the lack of affinity city life could have forged towards nature. A potpourri of animals, vibrant and flamboyant, is paradoxically emulated via odd scraps of material, the constituents each acquiring a creative improbability, but given Tomita’s decidedly innovative streak, amass to form appealing simulations. Endearing, highly intuitive, and extremely imaginative, Tomita evokes a sentiment of childish enthusiasm amongst viewers, whilst furthering a creative expansion amongst a younger audience.