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I am an Clearing Gem Artist in IseShima.

Statement

Clearing Gem Art is a mixed media collage, mainly used gemstones and artificial flowers, made by Akiko Tanaka. Her works are inspired by nature and her personal experience of life. She was fascinated by the radiant beauty of crystals and its strong existence. She believes gemstones are one of the awesome mediums intimately connected to sensibility of human beings. So now she is trying to express her unconditional love for all creatures with her works, and hoping to be of use to people being in complete harmony of nature.

All of her works are abstract expression, and most of them are not define fixed directions up and down or right and left. They can be displayed in the direction for your choice according to space, atmosphere and your feeling. It would be pleased if you would enjoy different impression with your feeling and atmosphere on a moment-to-moment basis.

Biography

Akiko Tanaka was born in Shima, Japan and spent her youth exploring the wilderness areas of Ise-Shima National Park. She originally studied gemology at the Gemological Institute of America in Carlsbad, USA and completed Graduate Gemologist, Graduate Jeweler and Jewelry Design Program. And then she studied art at the Musashino Art University in Tokyo, Japan. She was also learned floral arrangement from her mother. In 2009 she started to create the original style of collage art with gemstones and artificial flowers. Her work “Peace of us” was selected in the first Harmony for Peace Competition online exhibition in 2011. Around that time, she named her original collage as ‘Clearing Gem Art’. She has had solo shows in Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto and Ise, also exhibited at group shows in London and Paris.

She also gives floral and collage art classes at her studio in Shima, Japan.

 

2010, 2011 Solo Exhibition at Gallery Toukafu, Tokyo
2011 Selected for online exhibition at the 1st International Peace Art Competition
2011 Solo Exhibition at Gallery Waremokou, Ise, Mie
2012 Solo Exhibition at Gallery T.K.Art, Osaka
2013 EWAA Charity Exhibition at La Galleria Pall Mall, London, UK
2016 Solo Exhibition at café+gallery Blanka, Nagoya
2017 Solo Exhibition at Gion Gallery Yasaka, Kyoto
2018 Solo Exhibition at Pallet Gallery Azabujuban, Tokyo
2018 Discover The One Japanese Art 2018 in Paris, France
             Award-winning Jury’s special award
2018 Solo Exhibition at Gion Gallery Yasaka, Kyoto
2019 Award-wining Exhibition of Discover The One Japanese Art 2018 in Paris,  Tokyo
2019 The Creators, Publication Commemorative Exhibition, Kanazawa
2019 Fundación Eugenio Granell, Beauty & Creation Pilgrimage Art Exhibition, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
2019 Solo Exhibition at Pallet Gallery Azabujuban, Tokyo
2019 JARDIN Exhibition, Abu Dhabi, UAE 
2020 The 25th Japan National Selected  Artists Exhibition, Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo