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Ah, this is just my kind of art - colourful, crazy and a little bit twisted. Yoko dHolbachie is a Japanese artist who has a knack for displaying dreams through the medium of paint and computer graphics. She reveals psychedelic shapes and hues and mixes them with sweet, playful looking subject matter (although they’re just not sweet enough to hang in your children’s bedroom). Studying her pieces make you feel like you’ve taken a wrong turn in Disneyland.

DHolbachie feels that the creatures she draws have been living inside of her, and although she doesn’t quite know what they are, they’re very close to her heart.

Although I am a small and ordinary person, images that come out of me are very strange and intense. It is not easy to bring the images out and make them into paintings. Like a mother trying to deliver a baby, I have to help those formless images struggling to gain form. It is a pleasure, and at the same time, it is a pain. They try to come out every day, giving me no choice but to become a painter.

She finds endless inspiration from her childhood, especially from animals, toys, fish and insects, which is quite evident in her pieces. People who have met dHolbachie says she has a quiet, mysterious, and rather ordinary demeanor. It’s hard for one to think such intricate, vivid and almost disturbing paintings come from her imagination. One admirer said upon viewing her art, that his head was spinning and his heart was beating rapidly. Probably because of the array of busy and vibrant colours.

              Brain                                                                                Antenna

             Fling Green                                                                            Kishi Bojin

I find her pieces arouse a child-like excitement in me, almost like that feeling on Christmas Eve. Any sort of initial shock was erased once I studied the many soft shapes and swirls. It’s easy for time to stop, even for just a little bit, when you study her art, and I think that’s what art is all about - the ability to live in a timeless dream.

If I was loaded I would seriously buy all of her art. They’re actually not too expensive, going for about $200 each. Would you proudly hang dHolbachie’s art in your pad?

Big love & fairy dust,