Sophie Pulvers

Sophie was born and grew up in Japan, mostly in Kyoto, surrounded by Japanese visual culture, both ancient and contemporary. Sophie continues to be a frequent visitor to Japan. Sophie has a university background in environmental science and like the Japanese Edo-period artists, she is fascinated by the natural world, which is almost exclusively the subject of her paintings. Sophie weaves together the elements of colour and design to highlight the essential character of her subject. Even when Sophie’s subjects are not drawing inspiration from a specific Japanese work, they always utilise the visual language of Japanese two-dimensional representation in art, which is very different in its fundamentals from the European tradition of naturalism in art.