‘Living Lines’ is the first solo exhibition in Bangkok by Murayama Tomoaki.

🗓 14 June 2025 - 18 July 2025

📍 Art Focus Bangkok

🕔 19 June 2025 3–4 PM artist’s talk

Through intricate monochrome drawings and delicate sculptures, Murayama captures the fragility and beauty of life, revealing moments in nature that often go unnoticed.

Growing up surrounded by forests and fields, Murayama developed a deep connection to nature. He sees the world as a place without borders, where all living things coexist freely. His work reflects this vision by bringing together creatures that wouldn’t normally share the same space, inviting viewers to see nature as a unified whole.

Murayama’s pen drawings are at the heart of his practice. Using fine-tipped black pens, he creates detailed, intricate works directly on canvas and Japanese paper. Without preliminary sketches, he allows each composition to emerge naturally, capturing the organic beauty of animals, plants, and the world around him. On canvas, he uses 0.7mm acrylic ink pens, while on Japanese paper, he works with dip pens and pigment ink, emphasizing the delicate balance between precision and spontaneity.

In his three-dimensional sculptures, Murayama adds depth to this vision. The sculptures combine with his drawings to create a world where humans, animals, and nature merge seamlessly. These elements, though sculptural in form, continue the fluidity of his pen drawings, blurring the lines between two-dimensional and three dimensional spaces.

With Living Lines, Murayama invites us to slow down, observe, and appreciate the delicate connections that make up the natural world, where every line and form is part of a greater, harmonious whole