Better With You by Studio IMO Karin Lauria bold in intent

bold in intent

The image draws on the graphic conventions of golden-age tourism print — bold silhouettes

The technique — bold

Lake Chuzenji by Hiroaki Takahashi — known as Shōtei — presents a scene of still mountain water framed by dense forest

and a deliberately reduced colour palette to evoke the school's core conviction that form follows function

Better With You by Studio IMO Karin Lauria bold in intentBetter With You holds two figures close in warm, expressive acrylic. The painting leans into togetherness, its loose, confident strokes carrying the kind of emotional directness that defines Studio IMO's work. Form is simplified and colour does much of the feeling, so the scene reads as soft, intimate, and quietly joyful. There is comfort in the closeness of the figures, a sense of ease and belonging that needs no explanation. The contemporary