Informed by her mixed Japanese-British heritage, Yuki’s (b. 1985) work explores themes of loss, longing, and identity. Drawing from nature and 16th-18th century still life traditions, her paintings merge Old Master techniques with contemporary digital collages. Her compositions often feature suspended subjects in dark, expansive spaces, evoking the void and numinous. Blending Western materials with Eastern philosophy and Japanese aesthetics, her works exist between abstraction and figuration, presence and absence, reflecting her bicultural identity.
Yuki studied Fine Art at Wimbledon and Camberwell, graduating in 2008. Alongside her studies, she trained as a taxidermist and florist, skills that inform her practice. She completed an MA at City & Guilds in 2021, receiving The Painter-Stainers Decorative Arts Fellowship. Based between Suffolk-Norfolk and Wimbledon, Yuki has exhibited across Europe and East Asia. She is an Honorary Freeman and curator at The Worshipful Company of Painters & Stainers.
