時村 潤一 Tokimura Junichi

Tokimura Junichi is a Tokyo-based artist who creates gentle, minimal landscapes through hand-cut and layered paper colored with acrylic paint. Each composition is built slowly and intentionally—one piece at a time—reflecting quiet impressions of everyday scenes or faint memories that linger just beneath the surface.

Rather than depicting anything grand or dramatic, his work distills the subtle beauty of ordinary moments. These scenes are shaped through a process of subtraction: unnecessary detail is removed to allow stillness, space, and emotion to emerge. The calm color palette and simplified forms invite the viewer to pause and breathe.

His work is deeply rooted in a Japanese sense of aesthetics—especially the idea of “ma”, the meaningful space between things. Here, blank space is not emptiness but a place where imagination lives. Stillness, too, is not the absence of movement, but a quiet presence that resonates over time. These values, common in traditional Japanese art, architecture, poetry, and tea ceremony, inform the tone of his collages.

The act of cutting and pasting paper also connects with Tokimura’s childhood joy of making things by hand. That playful spirit—of crafting, imagining, and quietly observing—remains central to his practice today. The process itself becomes meditative, a moment to reconnect with inner calm.

Neither overly polished nor careless, his work seeks a natural balance. Through quiet textures and thoughtful restraint, Tokimura offers small landscapes that gently breathe within the spaces we live.