Artist
YujiKato
About
Yuji Kato received his Bachelor of Fine Arts, from Tokai University, Yokohama (Shonan), Japan. He had many considerable working experiences at several different companies in the distribution industry, and then started his own independent company as a management consultant. While giving thousands of speeches Japan wide as well as overseas, he acted as a host of a radio program, took the role of a producer on the BSTV serial drama which included 13 episodes and on 8 film works, and gave lectures on business administration as a visiting professor at a key Japanese university. For many years he has organized painting classes as a flower watercolorist, and in 2018 he began in earnest as a painter. In 2021, his solo exhibition was held at Nishiyama Art Museum. His works and philosophy of ‘Spreading the message of peace and harmony through floral paintings’ were highly praised, and he has been selected as the world's first living Japanese artist whose works will be studied as a research project at a prestigious university in New York. At the same time, one of his important works “Seventeen Morning Glories” was donated, by the first living Japanese artist since the foundation of the university. Also, his artwork is scheduled to be exhibited, as a representative of Japanese artists at the World Art Dubai in March 2023.
Learning Life from Flowers
Upon looking at flowers when you are exhausted,
“Why are you trying so hard?”
Upon facing flowers when you are so sad and on the verge of crying,
“Because you expected needless things in vain…”
Upon seeing flowers when you are overwhelmed by anxiety,
“You aren’t absorbed into ‘now’, but you are overly solicitous about ‘the future’’’.
Upon speaking to flowers when you are absolutely overjoyed,
“Then let’s spread your thoughts to everyone’’.
Even if you always talk to flowers,
They always give you marvelous and admirable answers.
It is so respectable that they teach you how to live honestly in your life, as if you can’t find the words more than “flowers are so amazing”.
No matter how small flowers are, no matter how gorgeous flowers are,
They don’t compete with each other, and don’t envy someone’s success and don’t feel rushed.
Flowers are perfect, and look like an amazing philosopher.
That’s why, I continue to depict “The magnificence of flowers”.
From now on, and forever…
“Aiming at ‘Healing the earth’, ‘Healing the human’…”