THE WORLD IN BRUSH & PEN

Hiroshi Shimazaki

In 2023, I travelled to Chile, a country I had long yearned to visit and enjoyed vistas and mingling with locals.

One afternoon near Reina Victoria funicular, deep, rich sounds from a cello resonated. On my last day in Valparaiso, I met the cellist again near the flea market. He was excited to see this sketch and photographed it as a memento of our chance encounters. I often think of David Vazquez Adonis, a street musician for forty years, as a hero. He is the embodiment of the essential nobility in relentless human striving.

Violonchelista, Street Musician, Valparaiso, Chile, 2023 Pen and Watercolour sketch, 15 x 12 cm

ARTA member Hiroshi Shimazaki is a geographer / artist who has been practising watercolour landscape sketching and painting for sixty years. Here he offers one window into an artist’ s mind.

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