Born in 1978
Born in Isesaki City, Gunma Prefecture
Colored pencil drawing picture book painter
Draw a single picture with flounder or imagination
A painter who paints landscapes of the soul.
I am drawing the other side of the "Rainbow Bridge".
It's not a picture of comfort,
It is a landscape to look at the truth of life.
The dragon crosses the sky,
The waterfall cleanses sorrow,
The cats live freely until the day of their reunion.
Death is not the end.
Breakup is not a break.
My work is
Instead of pretending that the pain of loss was non-existent,
Hugging the pain,
It is there to change it into a "connection".
Shaking the memories that lie dormant in the depths of the viewer,
A piece that shakes the soul.
The rainbow bridge continues to this day.
Tomohisa Higuchi
Tomohisa Higuchi is a contemporary artist whose work investigates the architecture of grief, memory, and spiritual continuity.
Using the symbolic framework of the “Rainbow Bridge,” Higuchi constructs parallel landscapes where dragons function as structural guardians, waterfalls act as thresholds of purification, and animals inhabit a space suspended between absence and presence.
Rather than illustrating loss, he interrogates it.
His paintings challenge the conventional narrative of death as finality. Instead, he proposes transition — a reconfiguration of attachment beyond physical existence. Through layered symbolism and luminous color fields, Higuchi creates immersive environments that blur the boundary between myth and emotional reality.
The dragon is not fantasy; it is tension.
The bridge is not sentiment; it is passage.
Each work operates as an emotional structure — a site where viewers confront their own memory, longing, and continuity.
Higuchi’s practice positions grief not as an end-state, but as a transformative force within contemporary visual language.
