The Japs Eye Story

I have been busy working on my current collection for about 4 months. I am a slow painter and like to work late at night. I find that when everyone else has gone to bed and there are no distractions around - I come alive! I am a night owl. I often paint from midnight until 5 a.m when I collapse on my bed tired but happy. It is great fun and brings me a lot of satisfaction. It also brings me a lot of paint on my bed sheets but that's another story!

I wanted to draw a collection that was close to my heart. I decided to draw London through my eyes. The eyes of a Japanese girl living in Japan. I wrote down a long list of London and the things, people and places I liked and disliked about this most wonderful of cities.

So why the Jap's eye collection?? Because I am a very proud Japanese citizen. I love my home country and the people, culture and society that inhabit our beautiful islands. I have heard that the word Jap was negative slang used in the wartime. Well I am proud of Japan and I am proud to be a Jap if that's what I am known as. So it seemed only right to call my collection the Jap's eye collection. London through the eyes of a Japanese girl living in London.

It was then that I met Chris at Blighty. I showed him my paintings which he loved and so this is the collection as it stands today.

Each painting has a different meaning to me and my relationship with London. I hope you like them.

Ryoko Otsuka

David Samurai and Victoria Geisha, cultural Emperor and Emperess of England London, such a delightful city Enjoying a romantic evening in Hyde Park My English lover The Pride and joy of the English lifestyle Black rain clouds of human lust