KATSUFUMI ASAHINA

Lives and works in Nagano.


1956 Born in Mure village, Nagano, Japan
1980 Graduated from Tama Art University (JP)

“At the age of 27, I started going to church as I entered the path of pottery. Now, after 40 years, I would like to make as many pieces of better pottery as possible based on my faith and half-pottery-half-farming.”

– Katsufumi Asahina

SELECTED WORKS

Bird in a Tree, 2010

Ceramic
23 x 22.5 x 8.5 cm

Aquatik plants‘ resurrection, once losted in Nodgiri lake, 1995

Secretary Bird, 2022

Ceramic
33 x 33 x 8 cm

singing bird on an opened cage, 2001

The Old Man and the Sea, 2000

Ceramic
25 x 23.5 x 11 cm