Mari Honma
Born in Japan, Living in the UK
Mari Honma is a UK-based Japanese mixed media artist with a background in Imaging Arts and live visual performance. She now works primarily through a hands-on, multidisciplinary practice that includes self-taught painting and traditional crafts such as ceramics and glass.
Her practice investigates the subtle, wordless sensations embedded in everyday life—feelings that escape language yet find resonance through creative work. After stepping back from exhibiting for family medical reasons for several years, she returned to public practice in 2020, with recent features in exhibitions and publications.
She chooses not to confine her work to a single style or concept, and thus avoids following particular rules in her artistic process. However, while much contemporary art leans heavily on advanced technology, user-friendly applications, and digital tools, Mari favours simple equipment and discarded materials whenever possible.
Her works are conceived as spaces of non-verbal, open-ended engagement, inviting viewers to pause and simply feel as individuals—beyond trends, market value, or utility. If her work can offer even a brief moment of solace, introspection, or quiet resonance for those who feel overwhelmed by social forces increasingly shaped by consumerism and its trends, then it has, in some small way, fulfilled its purpose.