"Yoko Ogata�s prints celebrate the beauty of flowers and plant life. Living in central Tokyo, her immediate surrounds are largely void of nature and her practice acts as a compensation for this absence.

Monotype allows Ogata to combine a free and spontaneous painting technique with the unpredictability of the printmaking process. As well as making prints with bright hues and strong contrasts, her practice includes the production of �ghost prints� which are soft and poetic.
By displaying these differently constructed prints alongside each other, Ogata creates a duality of strength and subtlety.

Ogata�s works are loosely based on images sourced online. Photographs of renowned Dutch gardener Piet Oudolf�s work have been used to provide much of her subject matter. She often selects a small part of these found images as a starting point, recreating it and painting it repeatedly over the picture plane to create a new �garden�."