Graphic Studio Dublin • Ed Miliano: Ed-miliano-summer tree-mokuhanga-gallery-dublin-ireland

This summer tree print belongs to Miliano's sustained study of single trees rendered through water-based woodblock printing, a motif that has anchored his practice across multiple seasons and color registers. The summer treatment likely uses saturated greens layered through successive impressions, with [bokashi](/glossary/bokashi) gradations capturing the dappling of foliage against sky. Working in mokuhanga, Miliano would carve separate blocks for trunk, canopy masses, and ground tone, using the [baren](/glossary/baren) to transfer pigment into dampened [washi](/glossary/washi) with the soft tonal transitions that distinguish water-based printing from oil-based Western relief. The tree-in-isolation format strips landscape down to a single subject, allowing seasonal color and atmospheric mood to carry the composition. Within his broader practice, this print sits alongside companion winter, blue, and gold-ground tree studies, forming a serial investigation of how a single botanical form shifts under changing pigment and ground. The approach connects Irish landscape sensibility — soft light, vegetal abundance — with the meditative seriality common in contemporary mokuhanga at Graphic Studio Dublin and the International Mokuhanga Conference network.