IMC 2024 Echizen submission

Created for the 2024 International Mokuhanga Conference held in Echizen, Fukui Prefecture, this print joins the conference's exchange portfolio, in which practitioners from around the world contribute work printed on locally produced [washi](/glossary/washi) to honor the host region's centuries-old papermaking heritage. Echizen is the source of many of the [kozo](/glossary/kozo) and [gampi](/glossary/gampi) sheets favored by contemporary mokuhanga artists, and IMC submissions traditionally celebrate the dialogue between paper, pigment, and [baren](/glossary/baren). Lamb's contribution reflects her ongoing engagement with the conference, which has served as the principal gathering point for the global mokuhanga community since its founding in 2011. Her wider body of work translates the Scottish landscape — the Highlands' mountain lochs, the windswept coastlines of the islands — into the language of water-based woodblock printing, drawing on the medium's capacity for translucent layering and [bokashi](/glossary/bokashi) gradation to render shifting light, mist, and weather across land and water. Within the IMC exchange, her sheet sits alongside contributions from Japanese, North American, European, and Australian printmakers, marking the conference's role in sustaining mokuhanga as a living international tradition rather than a strictly Japanese inheritance.