Hanane Aoi

Hanane Aoi was born and raised in Yonago City,Tottori Prefecture,Japan,nestled between the mountains and the sea.She spent her days reading books and using her imagination.When she was 34 years old,she bought a blue pen and started drawing pictures.She held her own private exhibition under the recommendation of her partner three months after beginning to draw what was in her imagination.She has held regularly scheduled private exhibitions since that time,changing the expression of colors and lines.Hanane draws in minute detail using a thin blue pen on watercolor paper.She depicts a blue world where living things and plants,which do not encoutner each other in reality,coexist together.She does not have a dark worldview.Her world emanates from her thoughts.
“I see a world of darkness today,and one which will darken further.Everything around me is darkening.I play with my drawings,which overflow with hope.”---Hanane Aoi.
Hanane expresses her dreams and what she has imagined from when she was a small child directly along with the possibilities that grow from a singular pen.She has gained many a relationship through her drawings.Hanane spent three weeks in New Yotk City on her first overseas journey in 2017.Relationships were forged there through her drawings in New York City despite not being able to speak English.The local young people where she was staying who saw her drawings called on her,and many friends asked for her on the days they were having get togethers to introduce her to everyone they knew.Hanane yet remains in close contact with the friends she made in New York City.She feels her purpose was was unbounded kindness,and infinite,miraculous encounters with people along the way.

Hanane Aoiは海と山が両方存在する鳥取県米子市に生まれ育つ。本を読んだり、想像したりすることで、毎日を過ごしていた。
突然、青いペンを買い、絵を描き始めたのは34歳。想像したものを描き始めた三か月後、パートナーの勧めで個展を開催。それから定期的に個展を開催し、色や線の表現を変化させている。
彼女は、水彩紙に青い細いペンで緻密に絵を描く。描かれるのは、現実には出逢うことのない生き物や植物が共存する青い世界。暗い世界観はない。それも彼女の思いからきている。『自分の今見ている世界が暗かったら、未来も暗くなってしまう。見ている周りも暗くなってしまう。希望あふれる絵を奏でたい』。
一つのペンから広がる可能性と、小さな頃から見てきた夢や想像したものをまっすぐに表現している。絵を通じて、彼女はたくさんの縁を得た。
2017年、初めての海外旅行でＮＹに３週間滞在する。英語が話せなかったが、ここでも絵を通じて縁が生まれる。彼女の絵をみた地元の若者が人を呼んできたり、多くの友人が集まる日に彼女を呼び、紹介してくれた。今でも連絡を取り合う友人になった。
数えきれない優しさに、出逢いは無限で奇跡、つながりは意思であると感じたという。