Maruishi Rea - [portable]

After high school, Rea joined a talent agency, where she underwent rigorous training to refine her craft. This intense preparation paid off when she was scouted by the influential talent agency, Amuse, Inc. in 2006. Amuse, known for producing some of Japan's most successful pop idols, including AKB48 and Morning Musume, saw immense potential in the young Rea and decided to nurture her talents further.

Maruishi, however, refused to let the outline die. In his landscapes, you can see a distinct, calligraphic reliance on the . He uses oil paint not to mimic the density of the European atmosphere, but to capture the flat, decorative, and rhythmic quality of a woodblock print. He painted the Japanese countryside with a reverence for negative space that Western oil painting simply didn't possess. maruishi rea