Senju - Kumonryu.

Technique: Giclee
Artist: Senju
Titled: Kumonryu
Reiwa Period
Handsigned, numbered and stamped by artist. 3/50
Full paper size: 420 x 300 mm

Senju was born in 1968 in Stockholm, Sweden.

Since early childhood, he showed a fondness for drawing. His grandfather was an artist trained in 1920s San Francisco, USA, and perhaps it was his early influence that kindled Senju’s passion for creating art. Senju’s parents were young and socialist. They moved around between various cities and, for a number of years, they lived in the countryside. Rural life became a defining moment in Senju’s life and provided a foundation for his outlook on life.

He dicovered tattoos and the culture surrounding it in the late 1980s while still playing in punkbands. In 1991, he became a tattoo apprentice, and after studying hard for three years, he began his career as a proffessional tattoo artist in 1994. The early 1990s was a very creative period for tattooing. A young, new generation learned from the old, adding and experimenting and creating a whole new culture. In the mid 90s, Senju began travelling and tattooing, meeting many creeative people in the cities and countries he visited. His style of tattooing slowly evolved.
In 2000, there was a defining moment in Senju’s life – his dicovery of japanese culture and art.

Senju now found himself deeply immersed in books on everything Japanese. He studied Japanese history, religion, art and culture with an intensity going far beyond everything he had done before.
He now decided to dedicate himself solely to Irezumi, the traditional Japanese tattoo.

He began travelling to Japan on a regular base, and during his journeys, he discovered photography and added this to his creative toolbox.
Senju has met Zen teachers, tattoo masters, Kendo masters, musicians, and artists in Japan. They have all contributed to making him feel that he belongs to Japanese culture. This sense of belonging has helped him evolve, both as an artist and human being.

Senju has now decided to dedicate himself to painting and his career as an artist.

Condition:
Is as new. Never been framed.

Will be send flat between hardboard en carton to prevent any damage in transport.