Oscalypso

Japanese artist Tomoo Gokita paints from intuition – distorting his subject’s identities in eerie, semi-abstract canvases.

Our debut collaboration, Oscalypso, belongs to a series of works which mark the artist’s return to colour after a decade spent painting exclusively in monochrome. The title is borrowed from a song by jazz bassist Oscar Pettiford, which Gokita listened to while painting the original.

“Switching back to colour required some courage, of course. I wanted to change and to transform myself."