New England had Grandma Moses, the renowned folk art painter of the 20th century, and now Kaua’i has Seichi Akagi, 94, of Kilauea, who is capturing on canvas the Kaua’i he knew decades ago. Akagi showed off a panel of
New England had Grandma Moses, the renowned folk art painter of the 20th century, and now Kaua’i has Seichi Akagi, 94, of Kilauea, who is capturing on canvas the Kaua’i he knew decades ago.
Akagi showed off a panel of refrigerator magnets a series of his paintings appear on at the Kaua’i Community College Christmas A-fair held Saturday.
The Kilauea man and former plantation camp resident enrolled in a painting class offered by the Kaua’i Senior Program when he was 80, and has been painting ever since.
His daughter, Pam Watanabe, captured her father’s works in photographs and had them transformed into magnets, and the line of products was unveiled at the fair on Saturday.
Watanabe is marketing her father’s works which features a selection of historical paintings of his Model T as well as Camp 4 at Olokele Sugar where he grew up. The paintings capture the look and spirit of the bygone days when most Kaua’i residents lived in the tight-knit communities of plantation camps.
