Fumi Koike is a freelance Illustrator and Designer born in 1985, Japan, her illustrations are one of my favorites. I like the simplicity and the same time sophistication of her artworks. It is a feeling like going back home and lying on sofas. They are natural and make people’s brain relax.
I met one of her illustration on a website called “douban”(pic1), this makes me a fan of her. In this artwork I see a something soft, dreamy, and eternal beyond everyday staffs. Her work is light, lovely, and all about comfort. The way her decorate her bedroom gives me some beautiful inspirations of architecture and my own house.
While most information about her tends to be in Japanese, Koike keeps her Facebook page in both English and Japanese (https://www.facebook.com/fumikoikeillustration/) , and the descriptions of her artworks have a wonderful softness to them, which sounds like a friend talking with you on sofa. What I love most is the way she make scenes of everyday, contemporary life feel quiet and pretty. Big wooden beds, eggs for breakfast and cold hands around hot mugs are just some of the seasonal imagery featured in her work, not forgetting the brilliant collection of dog painting. Fumi Koike seems to have latched on to that feeling and managed to illustrate it in this wonderful series of paintings.
Sculling down her images, I fell that I have come into a word of nature and simple. Everybody are loved and trust. Forest and lakes are just outside the window. We walked with our dogs, nothing is catching us from behind, life is just that cozy and beautiful.
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