Group Exhibition in Japan has opened and it looks great!

The Japanese professional painters’ group exhibition “Pont des Arts Japan” at the Aichi Prefecture Art Gallery in Nagoya, Japan has opened.
It is horner to be a part of their 30th-anniversary exhibition.

Big thanks to the widely known artist & founder, Mr. Soshin Okumura, who invited me and helped me to frame my work in Japan.

Soshin Okumura shows his solo exhibitions regularly at Mitsukoshi, Takashimaya and more. He is my favourite artist and he still paints every day.
The exhibition looks great! Congratulations to all the fellow artists!

September 13th, 2024|Categories: Exhibitions, Featured, New Work, Paintings|Tags: aichiartgallery, canvas, happy, japanese, japaneseart, midorifurze, nagoya, painting, pontdesartsjapan, soshinokumura, sydney, wallart, 百人一首, 阿倍仲麻呂|

New Painting to the exhibition in Japan

Midori’s new artwork.
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I sent it to Japan for the group exhibition with my teacher!
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What a wonderful opportunity!!

July 26th, 2024|Categories: Exhibitions, New Work, Paintings|Tags: canvas, happy, japanese, japaneseart, midorifurze, painting, sydney, wallart, 百人一首, 阿倍仲麻呂|

Joy is in creasing

I facilitated the Origami project, “Origami Paper Trail” for the Immigration Museum Melbourne.

It was a wonderful opportunity for me to promote the immigration, origami and exhibition.

We immigrate from the sea and sky, so we make boats and butterflies. Once we are in Australia, we welcome the new people, so we make hearts!

I hope we will have a lot of hearts in the installation.

Thank you, Keina from SBS Japanese Radio for the nice interview!

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Origami Paper Trail

22-28 July 2024

Melbourne Central

Pop in and fold origami! Free event

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July 26th, 2024|Categories: Featured, Media, Origami, Service|Tags: Australia, boat, butterfly, coolorigami, fold, foldwithlove, heart, immigrationmuseummelb, japanese, Japaneseculture, joy, joyexhibition, Melbourne, Melbournecentral, midorifurze, Origami, origamipapertrail, origamiworkshop, paper, shoppingcentre, wish, workshop|

7m Origami Monyument in Campbelltown

It is a fantastic opportunity to be a part of the Campbelltown Art Project.

I designed an origami monument for Koshigaya Park in Campbelltown this year.

Koshigaya City in Japan and Campbelltown in Sydney are sister cities and the cities are celebrating their 40th anniversary.

My monument will be about 7 meters high. wow!

Here is the miniature model I created for the presentation.

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April 13th, 2024|Categories: Featured, Media, New Work, Origami, Service|Tags: Australia, campbelltown, campbelltownartcentre, coolorigami, fold, foldwithlove, japanese, Japaneseculture, koshigaya, koshigayapark, midorifurze, mobiusring, Origami, origamidove, paper, redandwhite, sydney, timothygeorge, wish, workshop|

My work found a new Home

Midori’s artwork,
” Lost in D Minor”
Found a new Home!

April 6th, 2024|Categories: Featured, New Work, Paintings|Tags: canvas, happy, japanese, japaneseart, lostindminor, midorifurze, music, painting, sydney, wallart|

Origami for everyone

We simply get together and have fun with origami!

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Both beginners and advanced workshops were full and many people were on the waiting list.

So I think all the people who came to our workshop last Sunday were lucky!
They could book the spot or they were on the waiting list but got contacted to join the workshop.

Happy workshop and lots of smiles.

March 4th, 2024|Categories: Origami, Service, Workshops|Tags: 2024, adults, chatswoodlibrary, craft, enjoy, event, everyone, fold, fun, japanese, Japaneseculture, midorifurze, Origami, paper, present, sydney, tomomi, willoughbycouncil|

Origami Hearts for Valentine’s Day

Celebrate the Valentine’s Day with Origami Hearts!

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In 2024, this year I demonstrated the origami hearts at the very popular store, Cartier in Sydney.

There was a queue outside the store to get special gifts for their loved ones.
I was so happy to help celebrate the customers with my origami hearts.

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February 16th, 2024|Categories: Origami, Service, Workshops|Tags: 2024, calligraphyco, coolorigami, event, fold, fun, gift, heart, japanese, Japaneseculture, midorifurze, Origami, paper, present, sydney, valentinesday|

Origami Koi Fish in the Rain at Night

My New Work, Night Rain

Raindrops in the Koi Fish Pond at Night…

Origami Koi Fish – One sheet of square paper, folded to make a Koi Fish. No scissors to create the shape.

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February 16th, 2024|Categories: Featured, New Work, Origami|Tags: Australia, coolorigami, fold, foldwithlove, japanese, Japaneseculture, koi, koifish, midorifurze, night, Origami, paper, pond, raindrops, sydney, water, wet|

Origami Rainbow Serpent

Celebrate the Lunar New Year at AGNSW!

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Come to the drop-in origami workshop. No booking is required.

Each origami is small and doesn’t take much of your time to fold. However, if we collect a lot of origami, we can make a colourful, powerful and beautiful Rainbow Serpent!

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February 5th, 2024|Categories: Origami, Workshops|Tags: 2024, artgalleryofnsw, coolorigami, event, fold, fun, gift, heart, japanese, Japaneseculture, jennalee, lunarnewyear, midorifurze, Origami, origamiworkshop, paper, present, rainbowserpent, sydney|

2024 is the year of the Dragon!

Midori’s new Sumi-e artwork, “Rising Dragon”
2024 is the Year of the Dragon.
I imagined the dragon coming out of the beautiful waterfall.
Japanese ink on Japanese Tosa Gasen paper.

February 2nd, 2024|Categories: Exhibitions, New Work, Sumi-e artworks|Tags: 2024, blackwhite, dragon, happy, ink, inkdrawing, japanese, japaneseart, magpie, midorifurze, new, paper, risingdragon, sumi, sumie, sydney, yearofthedragon|