Kohei Kyomori (Studio View 1)

"Studio View 1" opens Kyomori's series of canvases depicting the artist's working environment in Ehime Prefecture. Mineral pigments (iwa-enogu) — ground stones such as azurite, malachite, and shell white — are layered with UV-cured resin, producing surfaces that combine the matte granularity of traditional Japanese painting with a contemporary glossy finish. The "Craftspeople" tag situates the work within Kyomori's continuing engagement with artisanal labour and place-based identity, themes that emerge from his upbringing in a dairy-farming family on Shikoku. By taking his own studio as subject, Kyomori extends a long Japanese pictorial tradition of ateliers and workshops as documentary spaces — visible, for example, in Edo-period [ukiyo-e](/glossary/ukiyo-e) depictions of publishers and printers — and refigures it through the dense, hybridised visual language characteristic of his recent practice.