Untitled

This untitled woodblock print by Ariadna Abadal Lloret extends a printmaking lineage that runs through three generations of her family in Catalonia. Her parents established the International Printmaking School in Calella and Mataro and later founded the Art Print Residence in 2012, the workshop where Abadal Lloret continues to teach and produce her own work. Her untitled prints generally function as exploratory pieces within this studio environment, where techniques drawn from Japanese mokuhanga — carved cherry or shina blocks, water-based pigments, [baren](/glossary/baren) burnishing on [washi](/glossary/washi) — are practiced alongside intaglio, lithography, and other relief methods. The absence of a title positions the work within the contemporary tradition of abstract printmaking, where the carved mark, the layered impression, and the chromatic relationships between blocks carry the meaning that figurative subject matter once provided. The piece reflects Abadal Lloret's measured, process-oriented approach to the medium, in which the slow accumulation of color through successive printings is treated as the work's essential subject rather than as a means toward representation.