A Facebook group with nearly 85,000 followers is enough for a young Japanese artist to sell her stone paintings. It rarely takes more than ten minutes for them all to be sold. The artist is Akie Nakata. Within seconds of uploading an image of an artwork to the band, a customer reached out to buy it. In Tokyo, his stone paintings are sold in a gallery called Seizan Gallery. The other physical space with his works is the department store named Ginza Mitsukoshi. But it was the social media network Facebook that allowed him to build an audience beyond his native country.
His works have a wide range. She simply paints on palm-sized river pebbles. On them, she paints with acrylic gouache. The prices for his works are huge, ranging from $300 to $1,500. She often paints pictures of animals – and almost all of them. Lions, tigers, birds, cats, peacocks, fists, polar bears and elephants, among others. She started painting in 2010. However, she only found five stones that could occupy an octopus.
Akie Nakata on his Facebook process and success
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Facebook has been a blessing for the artist. But she confessed that her inspiration comes from the rocks rather than the animals she paints. She said she paints any animal she can see “inside those rocks.” She noted that she follows the structure and the bones that are shown on these stones. She says she feels them inside the rocks, and she lets the animals “manifest” the surface of the stone.
In addition to Facebook, she has several other accounts on other social networks. They include Twitter and Instagram. She posts all her work on each forum, depending on the availability of her work online.
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