Artist Ando Saeko at the event (Source: toquoc.vn)

All the artwork displayed depicts the moon in various phases, seasons, weather, time of day and shades of colour, alongside the waka poems that Saeko chose for them.

Saeko Ando hopes her paintings will etch beautiful verses in people’s hearts and awaken their precious memories or conjure up new sensations.

According to NDO, Saeko Ando is a Japanese artist and art researcher, currently living in Hoi An City, Quang Nam. After graduating from the renowned Waseda University, Saeko Ando came to Vietnam in 1995 and studied Vietnam’s ancient craft of using son ta - a natural Vietnamese lacquer.

In a nearly three-decades-long career, Saeko has gained international recognition as a contemporary artist, combining traditional Vietnamese lacquer-craft painting techniques, learned from past generations of lacquer masters, with original methods she developed through decades of experimentation.

Saeko is also known as a researcher in the field of natural lacquer and shares her findings via lectures, conventions, and symposia, in the international arena.

The exhibition will run until October 1./.