Cosmic Art of Yuichi Tanabe

This series, as the title suggests, represents the imaginary worlds that children create in their minds. Children are often less constrained than adults, having had less experience of the limits imposed by society, less awareness of their own limitations having experienced fewer failures, and less of the so-called "knowledge" that is imparted to people which is often only partial truth at best. The world of a child's imagination therefore easily transcends the physical world that adults have come to know, leaping into realms uncluttered by complex thoughts and concerns and instead open to the infinite possibilities of the cosmos.

The "Cosmic Dance" series originated in an interesting way. Here is how Yuichi describes it:

This is my inspiration for the "Cosmic Dance." One day a picture of the Stonehenge landscape caught my attention. Then my consciousness was absorbed into Stonehenge. The next moment my consciousness and that landscape overlapped. Many images appeared and disappeared again and again. Some were of an enormous, endless ocean; others showed a landscape with the clear air of high mountains; and others had the image of a big city with many skyscrapers. Those images each had their own personality. Each existed in a closed space. In my consciousness they appeared to be alive, animate existences beyond space and time. They were jumping, bouncing and flying. They seemed to be dancing in my conscious universe. This picture is a representation of that experience, using computer graphics to visualize it in two dimensions.

This is an acrylic painting. This time based on the Moai of Easter Island, which I just love. Aren't they truly amazing!

I grew up in Scotland and I love Loch Ness and Nessie. Finally my husband decided to create his own version of Nessie. In fact, he says he's going to do a series on Loch Ness, and I certainly hope so. Anyway, here she is, first and second pictures!

Since I spend time writing about various mythical creatures, I have persuaded him to work some of them into his art!

Here we can see the phoenix, flying high and still trailing some of the flames from its rebirth.

In the forest as well as the flying phoenixes you can see a unicorn and a fairy. The fairy is also featured in a new series, still in production.

Yuichi Tanabe is not only an artist he's also talented musician! He has played flute, rather well, for a long time (since college when he realized the trombone is not a good instrument to play in an apartment!). In this series he combines his love of music with his artistic talent. These pieces are only the beginning ....

His business name is Mistic Media, and you can find his work at:

• On FineArtAmerica
• On Zazzle at https://www.zazzle.com/store/misticmedia