Roamcouch in Fukushima

Ryo Ogawa, better known as Roamcouch, recently finished this beautiful art piece in Fukushima. The 43-year-old Japanese street artist spent four days working on the mural and was joined by local kids in spray painting the stars on the side of the windmill.

Influenced by manga, Roamcouch is known for his impressive works that can require up to fifty different layers of stencils. Incredibly, each stencil is both hand-drawn and hand-cut by the Gifu native himself. Roamcouch spray-paints on top of each stencil until he gets his desired results. His work has been featured at solo and group exhibitions in Japan, Norway, London, Malaysia, Germany, France, and in the US. In 2014, he opened his first solo show, titled A Beautiful Life, in New York and achieved an amazing feat of selling out the entire collection.

Roamcouch has a Facebook page that updates quite often and a website where you can find all his work.

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