Through October the Ren Brown Collection is showing the work of artist HOSSOYA Masayuki. HOSSOYA was born in 1943, in Tokyo and works in the medium of Etching with Drypoint and Aquatint
“Playful,” “joyous” and “wistful”—all describe the etchings of Masayuki Hossoya. His subjects tend to be whimsical: tightrope walkers, a line of can-can dancers, contorted acrobats and circus animals frolicking. People are almost always rendered as stylized caricatures.
Masayuki Hossoya never intended being a printmaker. “Watching me doodling with a ball pen one day, an acquaintance mentioned my drawings would look good as etchings. Simple-minded and believing as I am, I went out and spent all my money to buy a press and some etching tools – all on that one comment. I’d had discouraging comments from a drawing instructor at night school, and no personal sense of having the smallest spark of artistic promise. Yet, after over 35 years, here I am still drawing.”
The Ren Brown Collection is located at 1781 Coast Highway One, Bodega Bay, CA 94923 USA (707)875-2922. rbc4art@renbrown.com
