Born in 1969 in Hokkaido, Japan.
KOHIKO ART LLC partners with the painter KOHIKO and handles the consignment sale and exhibition of his work.
Biography
Born the eldest of three sons in a fishing family. He loved drawing from early childhood, but gave up the path of art intending to take over the family fishing business, and went on to study at a fisheries university. When choosing his path before graduation, concerns about his physical stamina led him not to take over the family business; instead he devoted 34 years to Hokkaido's fisheries industry. Transferred throughout his career to Osaka, Tokyo, and Kushiro, Kitami, and Otaru in Hokkaido, he learned a great deal through his connections with many people.
In 2020, as the pandemic gave him more time to reflect, his passion for the painting he had once given up grew strong again. Self-taught, he began creating, and at 56 he took early retirement. He now works from his home studio, devoting himself fully to his art.
He paints mainly on the iPad, valuing the motifs that come to him through intuition. Hoping that his paintings will bring joy, smiles, and delight to as many people as possible, he faces each work one by one.
The Origin of the Name 光日子 (KOHIKO)
In spiritual thought, it is said that we choose our own names before we are born. Looking at his name anew, he learned that the character 彦 in his given name, Mitsuhiko (光彦), can also be written as 日子, "child of the sun." Taking it as his calling to brighten people's lives like the sun, he named himself 光日子, KOHIKO.
Themes
Gratitude, hope, light, harmony, bonds, and protection. He paints these invisible feelings layered onto Buddhist and Shinto motifs, sacred geometry, and cymatics, the ripple patterns created by frequencies. He aims for paintings that never tire the eye, even when seen every day, and that bring a sense of calm the longer you look at them.
What He Hopes to Do
To share with the world the landscapes that arise in his heart.
To bring joy and brightness to as many people as possible.
To enjoy the second life he has chosen, and to live it fully with a smile.
As in the phrase sekisho-idai, "small things build into great things," to progress a little each day, without arrogance and without haste.