Untitled

Although untitled, this woodblock print connects to Abadal Lloret's particular trajectory: a degree in biology from the University of Girona before her return to the family printmaking tradition. Her scientific training informs an attentive approach to surface, structure, and pattern that recurs across contemporary mokuhanga practice engaged with natural forms. The mokuhanga method itself — pigment ground in water, brushed onto cherry or shina blocks, registered through carved kentō notches, and pressed onto washi by baren — produces a layered, light-saturated surface that differs from oil-based relief printing. Her parents Claudia Lloret and Jordi Roses, through Murtra Edicions, established the printmaking environment in which she trained, first in their home studio and later at the International Printmaking School they directed in Calella and Mataró. Since 2012 she has worked at the Art Print Residence they founded, where this and other prints are produced within a workshop that hosts artists from around the world and integrates the Japanese tradition into a broader European fine-print practice.