“MAKO” was born in Boston but did his doctoral studies in Tokyo. He is a world-renowned Nihonga artist, a master of this ancient Japanese style of painting.
     Valerie Dillon, owner of the Dillon Gallery in New York City, said, “Spending time with Fujimura’s work invites one to enter a meditation. His paintings evoke a sense of reverence and contemplation that moves us out of the mundane, and into a visual dimension that speaks to the soul.”
     According to Eric Walstedt, the Gallery’s Director, Fujimura “views his work more in the nature of offerings than as personal expressions…. Each painting is an attempt to span the void between the human and the divine, the transitory and the eternal.”
     Read his speech here