YOSHIO IKEZAKI: Drawing with Water

YOSHIO IKEZAKI: Drawing with Water

Live Demonstration: Saturday 4th October 2pm `BST

+ 14 Days Recording Access

With Yoshio Ikezaki and hosted by Frances Stanfield

Event Image: Yoshio Ikezaki, "Transience", Sumi ink on paper, 110x165, 2025

We are honoured to welcome Yoshio Ikezaki, an internationally acclaimed artist and educator, for a special evening unlike our usual workshops. Instead of a hands-on class, this is a rare chance to witness a master at work through a live talk and demonstration.

In this session, Yoshio will share his philosophy, his process, and his materials while demonstrating his unique approach with ink and water. This is a chance to slow down, observe, and experience the way an artist’s lifelong practice becomes visible through gesture, attention, and presence.

Yoshio Ikezaki is a master of sumi ink painting and traditional Japanese papermaking. His paintings and sculptures are grounded in Japanese aesthetic principle and philosophies, crafts and materials, interpreted in a contemporary context. His works express the profound power and vulnerability of nature in its relationship to humanity.

His paintings, sculptures, and handmade papers are held in major collections, including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and the Museum of Art and Design (MAD) in New York, and he has exhibited in over 150 museums and galleries worldwide.

Whether you are an artist, student, or simply curious, this event offers an incredible opportunity to learn through watching, and to be part of an intimate encounter with an artist whose work carries both tradition and innovation.

Details:

• Artist Talk & Demonstration followed by a short Q&A
• With Yoshio Ikezaki
• Suitable for artists, students, and anyone interested!
• No materials needed - just your attention and curiosity

This class is open to all levels!

Everyone is welcome to join this Pay-What-You-Can class

Tickets:

We suggest an amount of £20. However, we understand that may not be possible for everybody. Please be honest and pay what you can afford so that we may continue to offer our sessions on this basis whilst also giving our tutors a sustainable wage.

There is also a ticket option to "Pay It Forward" to support us and our students! We offer classes for free to those who can't afford the minimum amount (If this is you please email us to join for free). This continues to ensure our classes are available to everyone!

Once booked:

You will receive a confirmation email and be able to access information on how to join the event via your eventbrite "Online Event Page" You can access this by signing into eventbrite or creating an account using the email address that you booked with.

In the Class:

You can't be seen or heard in our classes, your audio and video are automatically turned off and there's no way these can be turned on. You can talk to us and others in the class in the chat box!

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More about Yoshio Ikezaki:

Yoshio Ikezaki was born in Japan in 1953 and active in Los Angeles since 1986. He is an internationally exhibited visual artist and educator. He is a master sumi ink painter and also a master papermaker of Japanese tradition. His paintings and sculptures are grounded in Japanese aesthetic principle and philosophies, crafts and materials, interpreted in a contemporary context. His works express the profound power and vulnerability of nature in its relationship to humanity, thus illuminating the deeper meaning of the contemporary global environmental crisis.

​Yoshio Ikezaki makes all of his own paper from cooking mulberry ber to create sculptures. He layers the paper into 50-to-200-layer blocks which he then forms by hand. Museum of Art and Design (MAD) in New York City has his 33 pieces of designed paper as a permanent collection.

He has more than 50 selected solo exhibits and over 100 group exhibits in museums and galleries in many countries, including USA, Germany, France, Holland, Belgium, Bulgaria, Lithuania, China, Japan, Korea, Thailand and more for 40years. His US exhibits include solo show at Pacic Asian Museum, A retrospective at LA Artcore Center of the Art, His most recent shows in U.S.A includes several solo exhibits at Kylin gallery in Beverly Hills, Retrospective survey show at Alyce De Roulet Williamson gallery of Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, Los Angeles County Museum of Art in Los Angeles. Traveling Exhibit of Washi Transformed (2021-2026) which take places at Allentown Art Museum, Allentown PA, Longmont Museum, Longmont, CO, D’Amour Museum of Fine Art, Springeld MA, Morikawa Museum and Japanese Garden, Delray Beach FL, Dayton Art Institute, Dayton OH, Mingei International Museum, San Diego CA, Las Cruces Museum of Art, Las Cruces NM.

LACMA collected his Sumi ink painting as a permanent collection. LACMA also recently collected his Paper sculpture which will be included for a group exhibit at LACMA new Pavilion in 2026.

He was a former professor at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena CA U.S.A and Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles CA U.S.A between 1987- 2012. He was also lecturer at Tama Art University and Musashino Art University in Tokyo Japan for many years.

His selected special lectures and workshops include Rhode Island School of Design (RI) U.S.A, Parson School of Art and Design (NYC) U.S.A, Pratt Art Institute (NYC) U.S.A, Cooper Union (NYC) U.S.A, Michigan University(MI) U.S.A, California Institute of Arts(CA) U.S.A, Japan Foundation Los Angeles, Tama Art University (TYO) Japan, Musashino University (TKO) Japan , Central Academy of Fine Art Beijing China.

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And that's it!

We're really looking forward to you joining us.

Love,

LDG