14cm x 18cm

About artist: Yoko Akino was born in Kyoto, Japan in 1967. Her grandmother Fuku Akino was a well-known artist working in traditional Japanese paints. Akino says: “I grew up with my grandmother and learned the qualities and the spirit of art from her. Apart from that I am self-taught. My first works were in ink and gouache. I love crisp lines and so I began to study etching”. Moving to Ireland in 1996, Akino joined Graphic Studio Dublin, and has worked there since then. She has participated in many group and solo shows in Ireland, Sweden, Poland and Japan. She lives in Co. Louth.
About artwork: Every day Latiaran the nun would leave her cell to fetch a seed of fire from the blacksmith in her village and carry it back in her apron. One day the blacksmith complimented her feet. As she admired her own feet, her apron caught fire, but it did not burn her. There are several alternate endings to the story. In one, Latiaran was punished for her vanity by sinking into the ground where a heart-shaped stone remains to this day, and reemerged in her cell, never leaving it again, to avoid causing any more sin. In other versions, she cursed the blacksmith and no forge has worked in her village ever since.
Instagram: @yoko_akino
Framed: Yes, with glass 31cm x 34cm
Edition: Yes 4 of 20

Good Overall

Etching and aquatint

Yes