Soft and Warm is an oil painting created by Haruna Sato in 2011. Sato has continued to depict sleeping babies as one of her representative motifs since 2008. For the artist, the peaceful sleeping face is a socially positive image without negative elements, and it becomes a way to explore feelings and ideas that may be shared across different backgrounds, values, cultures, and ways of life.
Haruna Sato was born in Tokyo in 1984. She graduated from Tama Art University, Department of Painting, Oil Painting Course, and completed the Graduate School of Fine Arts, Oil Painting Course, at Aichi University of the Arts in 2020. Working primarily in oil painting, Sato explores sensations of skin, body, memory, and dissolving boundaries. She has appeared on BS Fuji's "Break Zenya" and has participated in exhibitions in Japan and abroad, including the Nakanojo Biennale.