A close, intimate view of a cat just peeking its face over a blue floral blanket. The background is composed of vertical color fields — ivory, pale blue-gray, warm wood, and deep navy — keeping the focus squarely on the cat's eyes and the patterned fabric. Among the works in the series, this is one of the nearest and most tender in feeling. A cat peeks over a blue floral blanket in a close, intimate view. Vertical fields of ivory, pale blue-gray, warm wood, and navy stay abstract behind it, keeping attention on the cat's expression and the patterned fabric. SERIES — AT HOME AT HOME is a series capturing the unhurried, everyday moments of life shared with cats and dogs: sleeping, waiting, eating, gazing out the window. Small scenes of each creature going about their day in the same space are rendered through calm color fields of ivory, blue-gray, natural wood, and deep green, paired with brushwork that retains a gentle, unpolished quality. Rather than putting the animals' cuteness front and center, the series holds equal care for the room's light, its open space, and the colors of the furniture and fabrics — aiming for something that feels genuinely at home as a piece of interior art. AT HOME portrays ordinary moments shared with cats and dogs at home: sleeping, waiting, eating, looking out the window, or simply resting in the same room. Calm fields of warm ivory, blue-gray, natural wood, and deep green are combined with softly textured brushwork to create quiet domestic scenes. Rather than focusing only on the charm of the animals, the series treats light, space, furniture, fabrics, and the animals themselves as one balanced interior composition designed to feel comfortable in a room. ABOUT RITSUKO NISHIMURA Ritsuko Nishimura makes work with a keen sense of how it will feel hanging in a room, guided by light, air, and quietness. Even when painting recognizable subjects, she avoids overworking the surface — leaving room in the color fields, the brushwork, and the negative space so that each piece settles naturally into everyday life. The sensibility she long explored under the theme KINARI — soft light, a feeling of air, and stillness — continues to run through her work as one of the central threads of her practice. Ritsuko Nishimura creates art with particular attention to how a work feels when it is lived with in a room. Light, air, and quietness guide the compositions, while color fields, visible brushwork, and open space keep even recognizable subjects from becoming overly descriptive. The ideas once expressed through the theme KINARI — soft light, atmosphere, and stillness — continue to inform the work as part of the artist's broader creative approach.