Biography
Ariadna Abadal Lloret is a Spanish printmaker, educator, and advocate for non-toxic printmaking processes, based in Arenys de Munt near Barcelona in Catalonia. Born in 1977, she graduated in biology from the University of Girona before turning to the family tradition of printmaking that had shaped her upbringing.
Abadal Lloret comes from a distinguished printmaking lineage. Her parents, Clàudia Lloret and Jordi Rosés, built a printmaking studio in the family home more than thirty years ago and directed the International Printmaking School in Calella and Mataró for fifteen years. In 2012, they opened the Art Print Residence, an international printmaking residency workshop near Barcelona, where Abadal Lloret has worked full-time since 2013.
At the Art Print Residence, she teaches courses in a wide range of printmaking techniques including intaglio etching on copper, aquatint, drypoint, soft ground, monoprints, and electroetching. She is a specialist in mokulito, a non-toxic lithographic process that uses wood as the printing surface instead of stone, and has taught mokulito workshops internationally, including a 2019 workshop in Quebec, Canada, and a two-week intensive at the Miró Foundation in Mallorca. Her research into innovative and environmentally responsible printmaking methods has positioned her as a leading voice in the non-toxic printmaking movement.
Abadal Lloret's own artistic practice spans mokuhanga, mokulito, photo-etching, and monotype. She participated in the Fifth International Mokuhanga Conference in Echizen, Japan, in 2024.
Alongside Jordi Rosés, she operates the Art Print Residence as a professional printmaking studio specializing in intaglio and other methods, hosting international artists for residencies and providing plate-making services including photoetching. The residence, founded in 1992 under an earlier name and operating as Art Print Residence since 2012, has become an important center for printmaking exchange in the Mediterranean region.
Key Facts
- Active Period
- 1977
- Nationality
- 🇪🇸Spain
- Movement
- Contemporary Mokuhanga
- Works Indexed
- 12
Frequently Asked Questions
Ariadna Abadal Lloret is a Spanish printmaker, educator, and advocate for non-toxic printmaking processes, based in Arenys de Munt near Barcelona in Catalonia. Born in 1977, she graduated in biology from the University of Girona before turning to the family tradition of printmaking that had shaped her upbringing.
Ariadna Abadal Lloret was active born in 1977. They were associated with the Contemporary Mokuhanga movement.
Ariadna Abadal Lloret's work was shaped by the Contemporary Mokuhanga tradition in Japanese woodblock printmaking. Contemporary Mokuhanga: Contemporary mokuhanga (literally "wood-block print") encompasses artists working from approximately 1970 to the present who continue or reinvent traditional Japanese woodblock printing techniques.
