Artfuly presents - A Digital Discovery of New Original Art

An exciting new group exhibition to celebrate Artfuly's one year anniversary! It will be held  at Zigi's on 12/7/2014. Opening starts from 5:30 through until midnight. Would be wonderful if you can come along, it is open to anyone, of course! 

Artfuly's Facebook page is here, you can find more about this event by simply click 

"up coming events" located under Photo section on left column. The title of the this show is called A digital discovery of new original art.

A flower tabby

One of the recent commissioned work. A cat with iris flowers. 

I've been posting a few other recent works on my Facebook page  too, have you seen them yet? 

Recent exhibition and thoughts on reproducing works.

I feel like I have been neglecting this space for a while since I have started Face Book page (if you haven't already, please check it.)

So let's catch up. Here's a couple of images from my recent group exhibition "Black and While"at cute little store in Surry Hills called Somedays which closed two weeks ago. Thank you for those who came to the show! 

Now, the topic is going to jump a bit here but lately I am getting quite a lot of people asking me if I do prints or potentially re-producing specific work/s that I've done in the past. I must admit I have always been hesitant about reproducing my illustrations as prints or postcards, (I know there are many artists out there doing it and I've got absolutely nothing against it, its just me, I'm just stubborn about "one - off" artworks.) but who knows, lately I am having second thought about doing prints or I should say the idea of transforming my art into other forms / objects. If that's the way to reach wide  range of audiences I may try that in near future...

Put a crown on it

A recent commissioned work. Client requested a ink drawing with deer, fox, owl and cherry blossoms and here it is! I came up with the idea of drawing some hippie at heart foxes with flowers on their heads...

Spread the love for little creatures...!

I  now have a Facebook page dedicated to my illustrations! You can find it here, it's a brand new page only been up since last night.  I'm aiming/ hoping to up date all the things relating to my art there regularly. So please visit the page if you get a chance.  ( and "like" it too! ) 

Also I am involved in another pop up exhibition titled "Black and White" presented by Artfuly at funky Somedays store in Surryhills, Sydney. Opening night is on Thursday 27th Feb from 6pm onwards. Come along if you are in the area! 

Bits and pieces #3

From top: Butterflies, lion and I // Here we go! // Traveling on our fancy boat

This is the last snapshot from my previous exhibition at Children's Hospital. I had 40 pieces and half were watercolour and ink, the others were b/w. 

Thank you so much for those who came to the show, I had lots of positive feedback during this exhibition and I really hope children staying at the hospital didn't mind seeing my doodles on the wall for two whole months! 

As I mentioned in my previous post, the next exhibition opens this Saturday 15th at Zigi's Art wine and cheese bar.  Come and say hi if you are in town! 

More info about Artfuly Pop Up exhibition here and to book for the Opening night events here

Pop Up exhibition presented by Artfuly

Artfuly has kindly invited me to their second Sydney pop up exhibition coming up in February. 

Details are below, please swing by and say hi if you are in the area, it would be so lovely to see you there.  

Venue: Zigi's Art wine and cheese bar - 86 Abercrombie St, Teggs Ln, Chippendale NSW 2008.  You can find out about the venue here. For more details about artists involved in this exhibition here

Date :  Saturday 15. 2. 2014 

Time : 6pm - 9pm EST

** If you are planning on coming to the Opening, please RSVP here, The group show I am in is called " The Diversity of Australian Contemporary Art with live Aboriginal painting". You just need to simply click orange "attend" button on right hand side and it will takes you to the next step. 

bits and pieces #2

A couple of more images from the exhibition  Sunny Side Up. 

Top: A night on Blue island, bottom : where the big cat sleeps 

Bits and pieces #1

Jungle -  One of the works from my current exhibition at the Children's hospital. 

Thank you

Happy 2014!  Thank you so much for your support and lovely feedback on my works throughout last year! This year's goal is to fill this little blog space with lots of new works and exhibition updates.
Also my exhibition at Sydney Children's Hospital in Randwick is still on until 7th February so come along if you are in the area. :) 

About commissions...

This is my latest work I made for a client who came to my previous exhibition at Kinokuniya Bookstore and wanted something similar to the work that was in the show. 

I often get asked if I take commissions and I don't think I really mentioned it on this blog or on my website, but the simple answer to that is Yes I do. I am happy to create work just for you.  
Drop me a line here if you have specific subject matter, size of the work, etc, etc. I am also happy to hear from you if you'd like to have work created but have no idea how you want it to look. ( vague ideas are always welcome!)
Just for the record, my usual drawings come in A4 size and they take a few days to complete, so if you'd like larger piece I do need a bit more time. ( Probably a week or so.) 

x 

Christmas show

Lovely Roxanne who is a Art Manager from Sydney Children's Hospital Foundation kindly invited me back to their Christmas Art Exhibit at the Hospital this year. My last show there was back in 2011...time flies. 
Opening is on 5th December from 5.30pm - 8.00 pm.  So come along if you are in town, I'd love to see you there :) 

Done and Dusted - Day Dreaming #2

7. Let's watch the flower grow, ink & water colour on paper, sold 

8. Play time, ink on paper, $170 

9. Flower talk, ink on paper, $170  NFS 

10. Greetings!,  ink on paper, $170 

 11. Sky traveller, ink on paper, $170 

12. Fruit picking, ink on papar, $170 

Done and Dusted - Day Dreaming #1

I've just bump out my show at Kinokuniya bookstore this afternoon, I feel a bit funny about taking photos at the galleries, but then again it was my show and no one would stop me from documenting my own works...no?  Anyway, thank you all so much for your lovely feedback! 
My next exhibition will be held at Sydney Children's Hospital in December. So stay tuned, I'll post invite & details of the show as the date gets closer. 
In a mean time, here are the works from Day Dreaming show. A couple of my works have now found a lovely new home, but others are still available for purchase. If you are interested in purchasing any of my works, please contact me here  
I'll upload more works shortly. 

1. Spring Explorers, ink & water colour on paper, $170

2.Blossoms in bloom, ink on paper,  $170

3. A night, a snail, ink on paper, $170 

4. Afternoon by the pond , water colour & ink, Sold

5. Underwater , ink on paper, $170 

6. Snorkelers, ink on paper, $170 

DAY DREAMING

This is rather a short (and late) notice, but I am having solo exhibition at Wedge gallery, Kinokuniya bookstore in Sydney CBD. It starts on Thursday, 3rd October and goes for a couple of weeks. Please pop into the gallery if you are in town, I am putting 12 new works that have not been exhibited before! 

bookstore's website here

End of winter ( well, almost, I hope...)

"Hibernating, it's almost Spring #1" 

tiny bubbles

My partner went diving the other day and was telling me about how he saw school of fish trying to eat air bubbles coming from his regulator. May be they thought air bubbles were planktons? I'm not sure. Anyway, this is a drawing based on that story. I should dedicated this piece to you, N and all the small, silvery fish in the sea! 

Artfuly & Chrysanthemum

I met Rachel from Artfuly during the Opening night of my previous group exhibition ZERO A.D. at the Tate in Glebe. Rachel kindly invited me to join her online Art gallery that specialise in selling original artworks by artists around Australia. 
You can browse through "Artists" and read about bio & detailed information about artworks that are for sales.  If you like what you see, you can also share the artworks through Pinterest, facebook etc. etc.
Oh, and my page is here.

Apart from this exciting news, I'm still drawing lots of flowers in black and white, seems like colours have escaped from my drawing papers...

Lovely Chrysanthemums I've got a few days ago vs. my version of them minus bright yellow and plus little creatures. 

Procrastination over

I've been thinking about getting name card, or business card for my art for a very long, long time. I thought they would come in handy especially at exhibitions. So here they are! I finally did it! Procrastination over! 

By the way, do you use ArtStack? I've been invited recently and I must admit I haven't paying much attention but there are some great artworks from old masters to contemporary art and it is fun going through their massive archives. For those of you who aren't familiar with Artstack, it is like Pinterest, but purely Art. If you are using the site, you can find some of the artworks by me there too, my user name is Nana Sakata. I believe it is invitation only to use the site, if anyone is interested, let me know and I'll send you the invite. Lets stack! 

The Tate show

From top: I thought I was alone... , Faces, Deep Dark Woods, Underwater, Spring 

Huge THANK YOU for those of you brave the crazy rain and came to The Tate Show "ZERO. A.D" on Friday last week...! It was so nice seeing you there and hope you all had great time!

Here's my works from the exhibition. I'm so happy that my works have now found themselves lovely homes...x