Silkscreen. Born 1949, Tokyo.
Tokyo University of Education Graduate School; Cambridgeshire College of Arts and Technology.
Permanent Collection: University of Cambridge. Exhibitions: Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, London; CWAJ Print Show, Tokyo. One man exhibitions in Tokyo, Kobe, Japan and England. Now splits his time between Japan and Cambridge, England.
Shimura uses metallic inks in his beautiful imagery of trees for which he is known. He is constantly exploring and refining it, and this concentration on a single theme has led to an ever greater depth. Some of Shimura’s favourite landscape is the Fens of Eastern England. Shimura has also expanded his medium into photography and his video works have been exhibited in the Heartland Arts Event, Roppongi, Tokyo.
