Japanese Artist Yoshio Ikezaki interviewed by Joan Quinn on the Beverly Hills View

Japanese Artist Yoshio Ikezaki interviewed by Joan Quinn on the Beverly Hills View, 2017. Yoshio Ikezaki is a Japanese artist who resides in the USA. He received BA and MFA from Florida State University concentrating in painting. Then he went back to Japan and intensively studied traditional Japanese papermaking with Shigemi and Shigeyuki Matsuo on master papermakers in Yame, Fukuoka, Japan. He had spent 6 years with them, learning and experimenting with papers for his own painting and sculpture. He creates paper for his own artworks in order to control the uniform thickness and fiber distribution taking ink’s reaction to the paper into account and creating a ratio of different fiber materials.