Nao Tatsumi Creates Oil Paintings Inspired By Google Street View

Nao Tatsumi describes herself as a Tokyo-based artist and illustrator born in Fukushima, Japan. Since 2017 she has been doing an art project titled Street View Journey where she paints attractive landscapes she finds around the world using Google Street View.

“For the contemporary approach to the art, I think that the fascination of using Google Street View as a choice of painting motifs is that you can go to search for the scenery around the world through ‘no one’s eyes’ (that is to say, Google Street View vehicle’s eye),” the artist shared in an interview for Ballpit and added that this way she can share scenes as neutral information with people all around the world.

Tatsumi is a former architect who creates oil paintings, and through her art, she realizes that the “atmosphere of all architecture and its surroundings influence her works.”

You can find her work on Instagram and Twitter where she shares images of her beautiful paintings. Check out the gallery below to see some of them.