Empathy

Japanese artist Makiko Kudo paints a world defined by the quiet tensions between melancholy and peace, youth and maturity, reality and imagination. Her pallet is soft yet varied, built up in thin layers of oil paint. Like her inspirations - modernist painters, childhood television shows and Japanese art - she seeks to provide escapism from the rigid structure of daily life and expectations.

Empathy, a limited print edition released in 2021, is an archival pigment print portraying a girl holding a koala bear in a lush and thriving land. The limited print editions are signed and numbered by Makiko Kudo.

Makiko Kudo’s Empathy has sold out. The good news? We will release new editions by Makiko Kudo in the future, available to buy online at Avant Arte.