Mari-Ruth Oda is a Japanese artist based in North Wales. Her serene, emotive sculptures reflect her fascination with fluid lines and natural forms, in materials such as jesmonite, resin and stoneware ceramics. Drawing inspiration from sinuous lines found in nature, Mari-Ruth Oda’s sculptures instill a sense of calm and fluidity in the eye of the beholder. The concept of “kami”, which in the Japanese Shinto religion are supernatural entities that inhabit all things, largely informs Mari-Ruth’s work. The term “kami” is conceptually fluid, vague and imprecise, and her sculptures seem to embody this sense of ambiguity in a very elegant manner. They are neither one thing nor another, their shapes open to interpretation and subjective emotional response.