Julian Kirk

In A Tokyo Coffee House
Oil on Canvas
610 mm/ 460 mm

After many years of immersion in the daily life and culture of modern Japan, this painting is one of a series of pictures
worked up from my many sketches done on location in and around cafes and restaurants of all kinds all over the country.
This one is a montage of several separate venues, but all contain those essential ingredients of warm ambience, lively
setting and the ever- animated Japanese lovers of coffee, and the unique take they have on café life.