
Graphic Studio Dublin • Ed Miliano: Ed Miliano Wilton Park
by Ed Miliano
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by Ed Miliano
Wilton Park is a small Georgian-era square in central Dublin near the Grand Canal, and Miliano's print of it places his mokuhanga practice into specifically Irish urban-landscape territory. Where his tree series isolates a single botanical subject against flat color, the park composition likely admits more contextual structure — multiple trees, lawn, perhaps the geometry of paths or surrounding buildings — translated through the registered blocks of water-based woodblock printing. The technique suits a Dublin park subject well: [bokashi](/glossary/bokashi) can carry the soft, diffused light particular to Irish skies, and layered [washi](/glossary/washi)-borne pigments can build the muted greens and grays that define the city's planted spaces. The print situates Miliano within a lineage of place-based printmakers working at Graphic Studio Dublin, and connects his mokuhanga practice to meisho-style subject matter — a recognizable named locale — without importing Japanese pictorial conventions. Instead, the print transposes mokuhanga's sensitivity to atmosphere onto an Irish urban garden.
Graphic Studio Dublin • Ed Miliano: Ed Miliano Wilton Park was created by Ed Miliano.
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