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 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 to transfer pigment into dampened 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.