Ai Shinohara is one of the most captivating artists in Japan. Her delicate artworks feature mostly young women with flowers and goldfish, but there is also an essence of darkness as well. Mixing natural beauty with a more complicated vibe, she brings us a surreal, dreamy and enigmatic world. Her paintings are beautiful and delicate, and show a unique but dark relationship between people and nature. Ai Shinohara has exhbiited in New York and throughout Japan. Sanctuary is the long-awaited first published collection of her work, which includes more than 100 paintings created from 2007 to 2017.