Kei Takata is a self-taught / 'outsider' artist who mainly draws detailed abstract paintings. He was born in Tokyo, raised in Japan and the United States. He grew up in an artful environment and was influence by his grandfather who was one of the few male cross-stitch artists in the world. But it was not until the age of 23, when Kei first started to paint as his lifework. He mostly paint through self-learning from various western (cubism, dadaism, abstract expressionism etc.) and non-western art (Japanese traditional designs, aboriginal art, malaysian/indonesian batik and...more
