A cat sits on a shelf to the left while a dog waits near a yellow food bowl. Rather than filling in every detail of the furniture and plants, the background is simplified into broad expanses of ivory, blue-gray, and natural wood tones. The fleeting pause just before a meal is captured as a quiet, unhurried interior scene. A cat sits on a shelf while a dog waits near a yellow food bowl. Furniture and plants are reduced to broad fields of ivory, blue-gray, and wood tones, turning a brief pre-meal pause into a quiet interior scene. SERIES — AT HOME AT HOME is a series depicting the unassuming rhythms of daily life shared with cats and dogs. Sleeping, waiting, eating, gazing out the window — small, ordinary moments of two animals coexisting in the same space. Each scene is held together by calm color fields of ivory, blue-gray, natural wood, and deep green, along with brushwork that retains a gentle, visible texture. Rather than spotlighting the animals' cuteness alone, the series considers light, negative space, furniture, and fabric as equally important elements — aiming for a work 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 quiet priority: that it should feel good to live with. Light, air, and stillness guide each composition. Even when painting recognizable subjects, she resists over-describing them — leaving room for color fields, the trace of the brush, and open space to let the image settle naturally into everyday life. The sensibility she once explored under the name KINARI — soft light, atmosphere, and quietness — remains a thread woven through her work to this day. 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.