sumi-e, calligraphy
57 Sandycroft Road
Churchdown
Gloucester
GL3 1JQ
tel: 01452714112
email: tak.ono@virgin.net
website: http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~HH5Y-SZK/ono/ono0e.htm /
http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~HH5Y-SZK/ono/workshop.htm

type of activity workshop, demonstration
available to travel Gloucester, West Midlands, London, South West England, others when on exhibition tour
age range any
number of participants any

Takumasa Ono
Sumi-e is a traditional Japanese art form, which was introduced from China many years ago. It has developed over the centuries and is very different from Chinese ink paintings. Like European oil painters, the Chinese use a variety of colours in their painting whereas the Japanese use only black ink to describe a subject in a very simple way.

Takumasa Ono held his solo exhibition and sumi-e workshops as an official programme for JAPAN 2001, a year long celebration of Japanese culture in the UK, co-ordinated by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Since then he is holding these exhibitions of his artworks and sumi-e workshops across the UK every year/ More than 5000 children and adults have participated in his workshops which were held in the National trust properties as well as Cardiff Castle and the University of Oxford and Cambridge University…etc

In 2004, an exhibition of sumi-e, painted by English children at his workshop, was held at the Embassy of Japan in London. In 2005, his first book, The Simple Art of Sumi-e Mastering Japanese Ink Painting was published in both the UK and USA.

In 2007, he exhibited his work and held sumi-e workshops in Paris. Also, he has been commissioned to produce major pieces of his sumi-e works for the Japan Room at the Wales Millennium Centre, one of Europe’s most exciting new arts centre, in Cardiff Bay.

Ono currently lives in Gloucestershire with his family.