Syuka

Syuka is the name on the pictures. A 2014 creator profile places her in Hiroshima Prefecture, with the circle name Taupe, and points to her own site. She draws in transparent watercolour. The gallery that shows her describes a world between fiction and reality, built from the bleed and the soft edge that watercolour allows, with figure pictures as the main work and colourful pictures of girls as well. She shows the work in galleries and also provides book-cover pictures.

She learned the basics of illustration at vocational school. Before that she had barely drawn backgrounds. Study made the detail interesting, and for a while she also worked in CG. In the 2014 interview she said the screen tired her eyes, so she moved gradually to transparent watercolour, and that outside of jobs she then worked almost only in that medium. The gallery's current note still names transparent watercolour as the way the pictures are made.

She mixes toward blue most often. Deep red and purple are colours she is uneasy using and fond of anyway. She likes a slightly dusky tone, so a colour is often many colours stirred together.

In junior high school she became devoted to the pictures of Junko Kitano, and she began to finish a sheet as one illustration rather than only copying characters. Other artists fed the same change. She gained a little confidence by sending work to the magazines Quarterly S and Small S, which she had admired. Illustration jobs and making-of pages followed, and she wanted picture-making to be the work. The profile from that interview names a label for 笑四季酒造, the Monsoon Yamada Nishiki special edition, a watercolour-making page in a Hobby Japan book, an illustration for 『真珠貝』 in the June 2013 issue of Shosetsu Subaru, a title-page picture in Quarterly S volume 33, and a watercolour-making page in Small S volume 25.

The solo shows, listed by Jiro Miura Gallery, give the later rooms. In 2018, 『白い夜』 was at the Art Complex Center in Tokyo. In 2019, 『糸遊』 was at Sunaba Gallery in Osaka. In 2020, 『白眩 -whiteout-』 was at Gallery MUMON in Tokyo. In 2022, 『虚像 -phantom-』 was at Sunaba Gallery. In 2024, 『思考する庭』 was at Gallery MUMON. In 2025, 『夢想する花』 was at Sunaba Gallery. Group exhibitions include Onna No Ko at a gallery in Britain in 2023, and the Kobe Art Marche in 2023 and 2024. Across those rooms the picture stays a figure in a run of watercolour, on the line between a dream and the room.