Naohiko Kuriyaki is a visual artist based in Fukuoka, Japan. After graduating from the Design Strategy Program at the Graduate School of Design, Kyushu University in 2014, he has continued to develop a practice centered on painting and drawing.

His major body of work, the epica-after series, consists of large-scale drawings and paintings on full-size sheets (788 × 1092 mm), created through layered applications of crayon, colored pencil, marker, tempera, and other materials. Taking as its point of departure the proposition, “Painting is dead, but images cannot die,” the series pursues a unique return to pre-Renaissance, “pre-painterly” modes of image-making, including icons, yamato-e, and cave paintings.

By interweaving drawing and writing within a single pictorial field, Kuriyaki s

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