Makiko Furuichi

Makiko Furuichi creates works that balance delicacy and intensity, layering textures and gestures to evoke memory, identity and the traces we leave behind. Working across watercolour, graphic illustration and ceramics, she conjures hybrid beings—half-human, half-animal, part-plant, part-spirit—that inhabit dreamlike, ambiguous worlds. Influenced by manga and Japanese mythology, her imagery oscillates between the cute and the grotesque, the playful and the disturbing.

Her compositions are densely saturated with colour, textures, drips, and shifting forms that appear and disappear across the surface. Through this synthesis of myth, memory, and material, Furuichi invites us into spaces that feel both familiar and elusive through landscapes of reflection, reverence and quiet transformation.