EXHIBITION NEWS!
Szilvia Szabo & Kazi Toad presents
"Come Alive!"
Collaboration of nature inspired 2D and 3D art
2022. 10. 01.-31.
Esparza's
Tacos and Coffee
CHATAN
2022. 11. 17.-30.
XROSS*R
American Village
CHATAN
In this nature themed art show I exhibit almost all of my Okinawa inspired watercolor and oil paintings. The paintings really go nice with the excotic athmosphere of Esparza's Tacos and Cafe, sorrounded by colorful walls and giant green plants.
I collaborate with the amazing 3D print artist, Kazi Toad, whose air plant squids, and colorful jelly fishes put the cherry on top of this exciting exhibition! Hanging down from the window, and the ceiling, they are "framing my paintings" perfecty, and making the cafe "Come Alive"!
Meet The Artist
Szilvia Szabo is a hungarian artist, living in Okinawa, Japan.
She fell in love with japanese manga and anime as a high school student, that inspired her to learn how to draw, and to learn the language in order to become a manga artist in Japan.
In 2014 she travelled to Japan, as an exchange student, and started to pursue her dream, trying to draw manga in her student years. After finishing graduate school, she was working as a graphic designer in Nagano.
She was amazed by the nature of Nagano. whenever she had a hard time in school or at work, or being upset about her dream not becoming true, she found her peace in the nature surrounded by the majestic mountains, watching the cherry blossoms in the spring and the colorful momiji leaves in the fall.
She loved painting outside in the nature, and she enjoyed drawing character illustrations and paintings, imagining how would the nature look like, if It became alive. Creating original characters, thinking about their personality, about their story.
She failed to become a manga artist, because she is not good at making up stories. But after years and years of painting in the nature, she realized that the nature was telling her the story she was waiting for…
In 2020 she held an exhibition series, showing all the paintings she did in Nagano, telling the story she heard in the nature.
The only thing missing from Nagano was the ocean. The artist has been longing for the far away ocean since she was a little child, so moving to Okinawa in the end of 2020 was kind of a dream come true for her. She is currently painting and listening to the stories of the ocean and the nature of Okinawa.
She haven’t given up on becoming a manga artist. She have the most amazing stories to tell you...
