![]() The fact is that the print at top of this post is only my sixth moku hanga print!! What can I say? As soon as I tried my first moku hanga print I loved the possibilities that I was now seeing first hand. If you read this I imagine you will know who you are.īack to why the title might be misleading though. So I first should say thanks to both the artist and the family. The family bought a large number of my works in late 2016 and it was the proceeds of those sales which helped to fund most of my early moku hanga supplies. I'm not naming names here, more for privacy reasons than anything else, of that artist or of another family that was also instrumental in my deciding to try moku hanga. His colors in particular seemed to offer something richer than what I was getting in my previous linocuts and woodcuts. I did that largely because I'd seen the prints of one wildlife artist in particular who used and still uses moku hanga to make brilliantly colored, quite creative prints. I did make my first moku hanga print at the beginning of 2017. The title is true and accurate but it's possibly misleading. Edition not complete as of 02.10.19 but it will be between 20 and 25. I loved the area where we stayed there were more rainbows there than I'd seen in a very long time.Purple Finch and Hairy Woodpecker. Here's a little sketch I did from the window of our manoa airbnb, of the misty rainy mountains. ![]() ![]() It encouraged me to spend more time on my printmaking practice and I can't wait to start more prints. It was a thoroughly enjoyable conference, where it was great to meet up with old and new friends and colleagues. Katie, Yoonmi and I also showed our previous wood+paper+box print collaborations on a separate table, and everyone was encouraged to open and handle each of our individual prints in the boxes. Here you can see my blue Into the Garden piece in an alternative configuration. I showed a selection of my mokuhanga prints and artists books, and spoke to anyone who was interested. I had never participated in the open portfolio at the previous conferences so I thought I would give it a go this time. ![]() My Meyer Lemon Curd Recipe was also shown in the juried international group exhibition: Beauty of Mokuhanga: Discipline & Sensibility 木版画の美:修練と感性 I did quite a few sketches in the presentations I attended, and also at the conference opening and closings, of the speakers and committee members. It's lovely when it sways slightly in the breeze, and the plants seem to be alive. It represents an abstract garden, is printed so that it can be viewed from either side of the paper, and has a printed enclosure. ![]() Here's a close-up of my piece Into the Garden. We also gave a presentation about the project during the conference. It was an extension of our current project (un)fold: we invited three printmakers, Sarah Hulsey, Fuko Ito and Mia O, to collaborate with us, exploring the ideas and acts of folding and unfolding, and the lineage of learning the mokuhanga technique. We installed Into the Fold, an exhibition of our newest collaborative mokuhanga project. In September, after a short holiday on the Big Island, I went to Oahu with my friends Katie Baldwin and Yoonmi Nam, to attend the 3rd International Mokuhanga Conference at Honolulu University. ![]()
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