Dreamscapes and otherworlds
Mihone Forsyth is a 24 year old Japanese and British oil painter.
Mihone has been working on a series of paintings surrounding the theme of ‘Alchemy’. Inspired by Leonora Carrington and Remedios Varo, she decided to make a series dedicated to the fantastical and the occult, while maintaining her love for painting vast landscapes. Paintings in this series include Monday With You and Magnitude.
In Monday With You, a fantastical creature holds a golden droplet in his hand, standing in the ruins of an archway. The droplets were inspired by Kim Tschang-yeul’s works.
Before this series, Mihone painted dreamscapes inspired by real places that she reminisced about fondly, specifically natural spaces like mountain ranges and bodies of water. She uses oil paint to amplify and transform these environments into surreal, dreamy landscapes.
She is fascinated by morphing Earth’s natural entities like the moon, bones and stars with manmade creations. Recently she began contemplating the Gaia Hypothesis and the Anthropocene, specifically when painting The Birthday Party. She imagined Gaia swallowing humans’ technologies and metamorphosing them into new inventions (for instance a clothes hanger that has sprouted Butterly wings).
After completing an MA in Fine Art at UWE, Mihone exhibited The Architecture of Sleep, which was the embodiment of slumber as a place, ostensibly resembling the cosmos of sorts, illustrated by the presence of celestial bodies. The diaphaneity of drapes circulating and veiling the mountains mirrored the obscurity of fragmented dreams.
