Sei Saito is a Japanese-born artist, married to an American college professor, and after many years creating her works in Flagstaff, Arizona, is now living in Hawaii. She does large-scale acrylic paintings, which reflect vivid colors and patterns shaped by the places she has lived and by her life experiences. Her work draws deeply on her personal outlook, with her life and emotions strongly expressed in each piece. Painted not for an audience, but for herself, it is genuine artwork from the heart.<\/p>\n
Sei describes this work with the following words: \u201cDuring the summer vacation of my third grade in elementary school, I went to visit my aunt’s house in Nagoya.My aunt didn’t have children, the summer vacation I spent with my kind uncle and aunt, and I rode a bicycle and played. Everything looked happy and beautiful.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Sei Saito is a Japanese-born artist, married to an American college professor, and after many years creating her works in Flagstaff, Arizona, is now living in Hawaii. She does large-scale acrylic paintings, which reflect vivid colors and patterns shaped by the places she has lived and by her life experiences. Her work draws deeply on her personal outlook, with her life and emotions strongly expressed in each piece. Painted not for an audience, but for herself, it is genuine artwork from the heart. Sei describes this work with the following words: \u201cDuring the summer vacation of my third grade in elementary school, I went to visit my aunt’s house in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":20976,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ag_exh_type":"","ag_exh_location":"","ag_exh_location_city":"","ag_exh_address":"","ag_exh_address_2":"","ag_exh_sort_order":"","ag_exh_start_date":"","ag_exh_end_date":"","ag_exh_opening_date":"","ag_exh_updated_at":"","ag_exh_id":"","ag_exh_tagline":"","ag_exh_publication":"","ag_exh_featured_img_url":"","ag_exhibition_artwork_ids":"","ag_exhibition_artist_ids":"","ag_exh_additional_images":""},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[11329],"product_tag":[2212,3239],"class_list":{"0":"post-20979","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-sei-saito","7":"product_tag-artworks-for-sale","8":"product_tag-tusha-fine-art-paintings","9":"pa_ag_artist_image-https-cdn-artgalleria-com-55064-artists-4f274d0e-5f06-4580-9f3b-9b7a145efcf0-s-jpg","10":"pa_ag_artwork_id-11967","11":"pa_ag_artwork_status-for-sale","12":"pa_ag_artwork_status_id-2231","13":"pa_ag_artwork_year-11363","14":"pa_ag_category-painting","15":"pa_ag_dimensions-83-x-96-","16":"pa_ag_dimensions_height-83-0","17":"pa_ag_dimensions_unit-inch","18":"pa_ag_dimensions_width-96-0","19":"pa_ag_edition-not-part-of-an-edition","20":"pa_ag_image_aspect_ratio-is_landscape","21":"pa_ag_image_height-11791","22":"pa_ag_image_width-11790","23":"pa_ag_insured_value-0-0","24":"pa_ag_location-tbfas","25":"pa_ag_medium_text-acrylic-on-un-gessoed-canvas","26":"pa_ag_original-2221","27":"pa_ag_provenance-hawaiian","28":"pa_ag_updated_at-2025-10-29-232649-utc","29":"desktop-align-left","30":"tablet-align-left","31":"mobile-align-left","33":"first","34":"instock","35":"taxable","36":"shipping-taxable","37":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n