Biography
Idris Veitch is a mokuhanga artist based in Kingston, Jamaica, and one of the rare Caribbean practitioners of the traditional Japanese water-based woodblock printing technique. He is listed in the Mokumap directory maintained by Mokuhanga Magic, an international network documenting mokuhanga practitioners worldwide. His presence in the directory reflects the genuinely global reach of the contemporary mokuhanga movement, extending into regions with no historical connection to Japanese printmaking traditions.
Key Facts
- Nationality
- 🇯🇲Jamaica
- Movement
- Contemporary Mokuhanga
- Works Indexed
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Frequently Asked Questions
Idris Veitch is a mokuhanga artist based in Kingston, Jamaica, and one of the rare Caribbean practitioners of the traditional Japanese water-based woodblock printing technique. He is listed in the Mokumap directory maintained by Mokuhanga Magic, an international network documenting mokuhanga practitioners worldwide. His presence in the directory reflects the genuinely global reach of the contemporary mokuhanga movement, extending into regions with no historical connection to Japanese printmaking traditions.
Idris Veitch'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.
