Ukenio Minowa

Ukenio Minowa is an Ariddian painter noted for his strikingly detailed rendering of clouds, his paintings so realistic as to be almost photographic.

Of mixed Polynesian and Oriental descent, Minowa immigrated to Ariddia at the age of 27, and now resides permanently in a small town in the immediate suburbs of Cité-Belle. His most famous work, Panorama, is striking in its exquisite detail, and is exhibited along with several other of his paintings in the Museum of Realism in the city of Espérence. Minowa has also, however, dabbled in impressionism.

"I've wanted to paint clouds since I was a child," he once explained. "I've always found them fascinating. As a child, I imagined some mythical being making great efforts of detail to paint them across the sky, and I wanted to do the same in my own limited way."

When not painting, Minowa helps grow vegetables in collectively-worked fields near his home.