Karuizawa based artist, David Stanley Hewett is one of the most famous foreign-artists working in Japan today. Hewett has been in Japan for 30 years and has trained under Japanese master potters, screen makers and painters. Hewett is most well-known for his paintings using gold leaf. Hewett has designed bespoke products in collaborations with Puma, Riedel, and Takashimaya Department Store, and Dekanta, the world's leading online seller of Japanese Whisky and many more brands. Hewett's paintings are in the permanent collections of the Ritz Carlton Kyoto, The Peninsula, the Okura and the American Embassy Tokyo and the National Archives of the United States.