Yuria Okamura is a Melbourne, Australia, based artist who creates unique artworks that combine botanical images with geometric forms. Complex patterns and shapes come together with flowers, leaves, and stems to produce intricate drawings, paintings, and installations.
Okamura, who usually works with pen and acrylic paints, often combines her artworks into one bigger installation. Several smaller paper drawings are placed on a wall that is then adorned with similar motifs. This way, the artist “enshrines nature within imagined architecture.”
According to the artist, her works explore “the similarities between patterns found in nature and symbolic forms used in various religious traditions and metaphysical imaginings.” She also looks to examine “how the symbolic potential of geometry might be harnessed to evoke spiritual interpretations of the natural world.”
Okamura’s intriguing art has caught the attention of the art world, and she has been a recipient of awards like the Australia Council Career Development Grant and Ursula Hoff Institute Drawing Award. Her works have been exhibited in art galleries and museums in Australia and abroad while also being featured in renowned art magazines.
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