Mitsuko Kurashina

Tokyo,Japan

Born 1961

Mitsuko Kurashina worked as a graphic designer and Yuzen Kimono studio painter before taking on botanical art full-time. In 2011, she took part in a plant ecology course at the Tokyo University of Agriculture, Tokyo. Mitsuko focuses her work on unassuming plants we see every day that are, in fact, “products of coincidence” over many years. She recently produced a series of paintings depicting plants flourishing in flooded areas after the Great East Japan Earthquake and displayed her paintings at the RHS Art and Photography Show in 2022, where she received a Gold Medal. Mitsuko is part of the Japanese Association of Botanical Illustration, and her artworks have been collected by the Shirley Sherwood Collection and the RHS Lindley Library.

VISIT ARTIST'S WEBSITE

Works by Mitsuko Kurashina in the collection

img

'A certain place in Iwate' Seaside arrowgrass
Triglochin maritima

 

Dr Shirley Sherwood Presents: 'A Certain Place in Iwate', Seaside Arrowgrass by Mitsuko Kurashina

4:17

Fascinated by plants which regenerate after environmental disasters, Mistsuko Kurashina went about producing a body of work examining plants which survived the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan. First displayed at the Saatchi Gallery in 2022 for the annual RHS botanical art and photography exhibition, her painting of the resilient seaside arrowgrass caught Dr Sherwood's eye.