When I lived in the Kansai region, I would frequently visit Kyoto and I hold fond memories of the city. When a friend recently shared a photograph with me, the sights and sounds of Kyoto, Japan’s ancient capital, rushed back into my mind and I heard the rustling river and remembered the unique beauty of Kyoto’s cherry blossom season. I wanted to set these memories to my canvas and rushed to pick up my brush and paint.

A client commissioned a painting of the Tsuta Onsen, surprising and amusing me as I had stood in that very location some 20 years prior. The Tsuta Onsen is a secluded hot spring with a single inn which stands directly across from the Tsuta pond. The pond, framed by an expansive beech forest, is calm and clear with the surrounding autumn leaves reflected upon its mirror-like surface. Their vivid colors shine from the water like the energy that is welling up from the earth.

When I lived in the Kansai region, I would frequently visit Kyoto and I hold fond memories of the city. When a friend recently shared a photograph with me, the sights and sounds of Kyoto, Japan’s ancient capital, rushed back into my mind and I heard the rustling river and remembered the unique beauty of Kyoto’s cherry blossom season. I wanted to set these memories to my canvas and rushed to pick up my brush and paint.

A client commissioned a painting of the Tsuta Onsen, surprising and amusing me as I had stood in that very location some 20 years prior. The Tsuta Onsen is a secluded hot spring with a single inn which stands directly across from the Tsuta pond. The pond, framed by an expansive beech forest, is calm and clear with the surrounding autumn leaves reflected upon its mirror-like surface. Their vivid colors shine from the water like the energy that is welling up from the earth.