Kaoru Akagawa Quote

Calligraphy is an art form that uses ink and a brush to express the very souls of words on paper.

Kaoru Akagawa

Calligraphy is an art form that uses ink and a brush to express the very souls of words on paper.

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About Kaoru Akagawa

Kaoru Akagawa (赤川 薫, Kaoru Akagawa, born 1973) is a Japanese contemporary artist, railway journalist and photographer. Akagawa's unique style of art, where thousands of intricately interwoven kana meld to form larger images, is informed by her work as a calligrapher.
Akagawa’s art has been featured and reviewed by CNN, The Guardian, Deutsche Welle and BBC Radio and featured by The Avant/Garde Diaries, a video magazine initiated by Mercedes-Benz.
Akagawa has held exhibitions in Berlin, Paris, London and Tokyo. She has lectured at the University of Oxford, the University of London School of Advanced Study and the University of Zurich.
Akagawa is also active as a railway journalist and photographer and writes for British and Japanese railway magazines.