About​

 

Tomoko Tsuruta is an abstract painter whose practice has developed through a sustained engagement with paper. She grew up between the United States, Japan, and Singapore, and later returned to Singapore to study Fine Art at LASALLE College of the Arts.

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While at LASALLE, Tsuruta became interested in contemporary Chinese ink and studied xieyi painting under Singaporean artist Lim Choon Jin, whose practice extends traditional Chinese ink through abstraction and experimentation, with an emphasis on visual phenomena. Working with paper, wash and pigment during this period became a foundation for Tsuruta's practice. She gradually developed this into an increasingly colour-based approach to painting.

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Tsuruta continued to live and work in Singapore for many years before relocating to Japan, where she now lives and works. She holds a BA (Hons) in Fine Arts from LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore, conferred by Goldsmiths, University of London. Her work has been exhibited internationally and is held in private collections.