Lot 10

While Mitsuo Kimura was isolated in his Toronto home studio during the time of painting “Paradigm of Nature #3,” he nurtured a growing collection of tropical plants, related floral objects, and a collection of vintage botanical illustrations. In this curated studio environment of inspirational plant material, Kimura’s intimate surroundings crept seamlessly into his drawings of botanical characters and their imaginative ecosystems. His dynamic characters are first freely sketched on paper, slightly modified, and then finally crossbred with numerous other lively characters on panel. His meticulously drawn black and white plant-forms are colourfully painted, and finally fantastically intertwined with an imaginative world of living creatures, that are hybridized into an improvised environmental landscape.