An Enchanting Fusion of Irish Landscape and Japanese Watercolour: Solo Exhibition of Watercolour Paintings by Keiko Tanabe - Celebrating the 75th Wexford Festival Opera

Keiko Tanabe was born in Kyoto, Japan and currently resides in San Diego, California. She

regularly travels internationally teaching workshops and painting en Plein air. Keiko has

been an invited guest artist to Europe’s largest plein air festival in Wexford, Art In The Open,

where she has painted the works for her solo exhibition.

Keiko feels at home in the Irish landscape and returns year after year to capture seascapes

with piers full of boats, landscapes with farmyards of animals, rolling hills with cottages and

sheep, each telling a unique story filled with atmosphere and light. Her watercolours are

expressive, evoking a sense of calm and peace, her brush marks portray a whisper of

Japanese calligraphy.

Keiko has successfully shown her work at The Rosslare Gallery and it is a wonderful

opportunity to see her full collection of Irish paintings at this year’s fringe festival celebrating

the 75th Wexford Festival Opera.