Blue Wind

Blue Wind is a serigraph from Shimura's central body of work — silkscreen landscape editions produced from his Cambridge studio. The title points to atmospheric rather than depicted subject: not wind itself but its effect across an open landscape rendered in a cool blue-dominated palette. Compositions of this type in his oeuvre typically present a meadow or horizon line treated as broad, flat color separations in the postwar Japanese silkscreen tradition, with subtle gradient passes built up through successive screens to suggest atmospheric depth. The British school of contemporary serigraphy, in which Shimura has worked since the late 1970s, contributes a sustained interest in tonal shifts and metallic registers; Blue Wind's monochromatic emphasis allows those tonal subtleties to carry the image without competing color. The work belongs to his ongoing landscape sequence — meadows, woods, horizons, and weather states — in which a single chromatic decision often becomes the organizing principle of the image. The result is reductive in incident but layered in surface, characteristic of his mature print practice.