Fumio Fujita

Fumio Fujita was born in Aichi province in 1933, and graduated in 1955 from the renowned Musashino College of Fine Arts. In 1963 he began to make woodblock prints in moku hanga style - self-carved and self-printed.

His main subjects are landscapes with a focus on trees. This subject has become trendy among Japanese printmakers since another artist, Joichi Hoshi, became famous by making practically nothing else but images of trees. He has always tried to maintain a type of minimalist style within the landscape genre, has been very successful and is one of the few present day artists to have been contracted by a major Japanese woodblock publisher at the same time as retaining his independence and so continuing to create woodblocks prints himself.

Fumio Fujita’s woodblocks are all hand signed, dated, titled and numbered limited editions sometimes more than 200. Not all are dated and all are hand carved and printed by the artist.

Fumio Fujita exhibits regularly with "Kokugakai", a Japanese printmaker association. He had several solo shows in Tokyo and exhibits every now and then with the prestigious CWAJ print shows (College Women of Japan), which was established by Oliver Statler after World War II.