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: \u201c10 days from being diagnosed with cancer to the day of surgery. My fear of death and a little hope.\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: \u201c10 days from being diagnosed with cancer to the day of surgery. My fear of death and a little […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":21407,"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-21410","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-12079","11":"pa_ag_artwork_status-for-sale","12":"pa_ag_artwork_status_id-2231","13":"pa_ag_artwork_year-5793","14":"pa_ag_category-painting","15":"pa_ag_dimensions-63-x-73-","16":"pa_ag_dimensions_height-63-0","17":"pa_ag_dimensions_unit-inch","18":"pa_ag_dimensions_width-73-0","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-2025-10-29-232041-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