Danielle O'Connor Akiyama Limited Edition

... the artist could take refuge in the straightforward positive energy generated by colour. The forms in Danielle O’Connor Akiyama Limited Edition prints and original paintings are very much secondary to the almost fluorescent colour, although they are vaguely floral, and it seems obvious to suggest that the artist’s inspiration comes initially from flowers.

As a Toronto-based Canadian, it is surprising at first to find such obvious visual reference to Eastern painting styles in Danielle O’ConnorAkiyama’s Limited Editions. However the artist does have the ‘Akiyama’ name pasted onto the end of her own, and in fact studied sumi-e Japanese brushpainting to the level of Master.

Each Danielle O’Connor Akiyama limited edition print and original painting is signed by the artist with her ‘chop’, the, often red, traditional Japanese pictorially representational signature, as well as with her name in English.