Naohisa inoue biography of michaels

Naohisa Inoue (井上直久,Inoue Naohisa^?) was born in 1948 in Osaka.

He graduated from the Kanazawa College of Art in 1971, and from 1973 to 1992 was a graphic designer and high school fine art teacher. He has been a free-lance artist since 1993, and is presently a Professor of Art and Design at Seian University.

Naohisa inoue biography of michaels

Inoue is most known for his many paintings which depict a fantastic Utopian world which he names Iblard (イバラード,Ibaraado^?). His first book of Iblard paintings was Iblard 1981. In 1983 Inoue was awarded "Rookie of the Year" in the Division of Illustrated Books for his Journey Through Iblard.

Since then he has continued to create paintings, prints, art books, and CD-ROMs on the theme of Iblard. Nowadays exhibits of his work occur each year both internationally and in Japan.

On the occasion of his first Tokyo-area exhibition in 1994 (paintings from The Natural History of Iblard, at the Pinpoint Gallery in Minami Aoyama)