Yuriko Igarashi Kitamura

printmaking, drawing, batik, and sumi ink…

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“I want to go beyond what I see.”

From primarily painting on rice paper her interests expanded to include etching, graphite drawing and her favourite – figure drawing in Japanese calligraphy-style brush drawing.

“I want to capture the timeless serenity, the power and endurance of rugged mountains, the delicacy of a flower, or the essence of the human figure.”

Born in Hokkaido, Japan, the artist moved to USA in the early 1960s after completing a BSc in Pharmacology, and then to Canada in the mid-1960s. Her career as an artist began in Alberta.

Yuriko Igarashi Kitamura is best known in artistic circles as the originator of dye-painting on rice paper. She taught the technique through the University of Alberta, Faculty of Extension over a period of fourteen (14) years. 

Yuriko’s aesthetic approach captures the timelessness and serenity in nature. She strives to honour the qualities of simplification, decorativeness, and serenity in her work, and is interested in drawing and capturing the various expectations and cycles of life. Her primary work is done on location, in watercolour and in pencil sketch.

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