"Shigehito Maehara - Oil On Canvas"
Oil on canvas, signed S. Maehara. Shigehito Maehara is a Japanese painter and printmaker born around 1950. He left Japan in 1972 and lives and works in France. In the 1980s, he founded his own etching workshop. He prints using the method of Stanley William Hayter, his mentor in the art of printmaking. The work of this Franco-Japanese artist is characterized by a figurative and colorful style, often described as naive, close to the spirit of the Figuration Libre movement.