Yuka Kashihara graduated from the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig in 2013. Kashihara expressed symbolically as an introspective speculation in the forms of the motifs of caves, holes, mountains and lakes which she repeatedly takes up within her work, and through this process of sublimation it is as though the original energies which lie dormant within the great Earth have become awakened. She uses oil paint applied in a thinly diffuse manner similar to that of Japanese nihonga painting, and by applying it in numerous layers. She has won the "Honourable Mention Award" and "Ohara Museum of Art Award" in VOCA 2013.