4. Fukumoto Fuku  福本 双紅

Fukumoto Fuku was born in Kyoto in 1973, the daughter of two well-known textile artists. Her ambition was more in ceramics and in 1997 she graduated from Kyoto City University of Arts. She has since had numerous exhibitions and also won several major awards including the Asahi Modern Craft Exhibition Grand Prix. She has now been one of the leading figures in the second generation of female Japanese ceramists for many years. She draws her inspiration from the sky: the moon, the sun and the stars. In soft round forms of the delicate porcelain, she creates her own universe, which, in countless gradations of white, is perfectly expressed in an otherwise empty, white environment.  She accentuates the brilliant white of unglazed porcelain with brightly colored glazes in various shades of blue, which are a binding factor between the soft white of the other unglazed elements. Fukumoto Fuku's work is in numerous domestic museums, as well as prominent foreign museums including the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Musée National des Arts Asiatiques (Musée Guimet) in Paris.

Pedestal Bowl - Joan B. Mirviss LTD