About

Kobayashi, who now lives and works in London, is a graduate of the Toyko University of the Arts and the School of Art Institute of Chicago. Her work centres on notions of ephemerality, of the fleeting moment and the function of memory. Her luminous oils on canvas comprise interleaving narratives, composed of chance encounters, half-forgotten gestures and vivid memories of place. In works such as Dog and Harvest Moon the tableau presented is ambiguous – at once calm and charged with multiple possibilities and meanings. Other works such as Journaling on the Staircase and At the Conservatory …