Biography
Jana Bareham — born Jana Domanova — is a contemporary Slovak-British mokuhanga printmaker based in Sheffield, in the north of England, whose practice in Japanese water-based woodblock is rooted in her engagement with mountainous landscapes encountered as a climber and hiker. Birth and death dates have not been published; a Slovak emigre, she has been based in the United Kingdom for many years. Her formal training in mokuhanga has been built principally through specialized British and Japanese short courses across recent years rather than through a traditional art-school programme. In 2022 she took an advanced mokuhanga workshop with Lucy May Schofield at UWE Bristol and an introductory mokuhanga workshop with Julia McKinley at Wakefield Art House; in 2023 she completed a twelve-week advanced Japanese printmaking course at Morley College in London; in 2024 she attended workshops at the International Mokuhanga Conference in Echizen, Fukui Prefecture, and also worked on paper-dyeing and scroll-making with Lucy May Schofield; and in 2025 she completed a five-week advanced Japanese printmaking and scroll-making residency at MI-Lab in Echizen, a mokuhanga residency programme for international practitioners in Japan. Her studio practice operates under the Doma Studio name and is characterized by minimal-but-layered compositions developed from landscapes, trees, and shifting light, frequently translated from photographs taken on climbing trips to mountainous regions in continental Europe. The technical method follows standard contemporary revival practice: hand-carved blocks, watercolour pigments, washi paper, and a bamboo baren; the ecological commitment to a non-toxic, water-based, hand-impression process is foregrounded in her studio writing as one of the medium's primary attractions. Her exhibition record is recent and concentrated in the British mokuhanga and open-print circuit, with showings across the UK and in Japan. Her print Sunrise over Telendos, made after a climbing trip to the Greek island of Telendos in the Dodecanese opposite Kalymnos, was included in the 2024 juried international exhibition at the International Mokuhanga Conference in Echizen. At the Fronteer Open 2025 in Sheffield she won the People's Choice Award and was awarded a solo exhibition for 2027. Public-collection holdings have not been documented, and her place in the contemporary record is best understood as that of an emerging British mokuhanga maker whose first body of work has been built through a post-2022 training network of British short courses and Japanese residencies.
Key Facts
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- Contemporary Mokuhanga
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Jana Bareham — born Jana Domanova — is a contemporary Slovak-British mokuhanga printmaker based in Sheffield, in the north of England, whose practice in Japanese water-based woodblock is rooted in her engagement with mountainous landscapes encountered as a climber and hiker. Birth and death dates have not been published; a Slovak emigre, she has been based in the United Kingdom for many years. Her formal training in mokuhanga has been built principally through specialized British and Japanese short courses across recent years rather than through a traditional art-school programme. In 2022 she took an advanced mokuhanga workshop with Lucy May Schofield at UWE Bristol and an introductory mokuhanga workshop with Julia McKinley at Wakefield Art House; in 2023 she completed a twelve-week advanced Japanese printmaking course at Morley College in London; in 2024 she attended workshops at the International Mokuhanga Conference in Echizen, Fukui Prefecture, and also worked on paper-dyeing and scroll-making with Lucy May Schofield; and in 2025 she completed a five-week advanced Japanese printmaking and scroll-making residency at MI-Lab in Echizen, a mokuhanga residency programme for international practitioners in Japan. Her studio practice operates under the Doma Studio name and is characterized by minimal-but-layered compositions developed from landscapes, trees, and shifting light, frequently translated from photographs taken on climbing trips to mountainous regions in continental Europe. The technical method follows standard contemporary revival practice: hand-carved blocks, watercolour pigments, washi paper, and a bamboo baren; the ecological commitment to a non-toxic, water-based, hand-impression process is foregrounded in her studio writing as one of the medium's primary attractions. Her exhibition record is recent and concentrated in the British mokuhanga and open-print circuit, with showings across the UK and in Japan. Her print Sunrise over Telendos, made after a climbing trip to the Greek island of Telendos in the Dodecanese opposite Kalymnos, was included in the 2024 juried international exhibition at the International Mokuhanga Conference in Echizen. At the Fronteer Open 2025 in Sheffield she won the People's Choice Award and was awarded a solo exhibition for 2027. Public-collection holdings have not been documented, and her place in the contemporary record is best understood as that of an emerging British mokuhanga maker whose first body of work has been built through a post-2022 training network of British short courses and Japanese residencies.
Jana Bareham'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.
