Parade 2

Parade 2 is a contemporary print by Elspeth Lamb, the Scottish artist who has built her career as one of the leading studio printmakers based in Glasgow and as a long-time engaged practitioner of Japanese water-based mokuhanga and other paper-based traditions. Lamb taught printmaking at Glasgow School of Art for many years and has exhibited and published widely, with a practice that combines mokuhanga, papermaking, and mixed-media print drawn from sustained travel and study in Japan. Parade 2 belongs to a sequence within her recent output whose title invokes a procession, a march, or a sequenced display, and her recent work often privileges such serial or processional motifs as a way of organizing the page through repetition and rhythm. The mokuhanga procedure that underpins much of her studio output, with its registration system, hand-cut blocks, water-based pigments, and rice-paste binder, allows the artist to layer transparent washes against more emphatic forms, building images in which depth and color sequence become integral to the design. Within Lamb's mature work, this print sits among the studio prints that connect her Scottish printmaking lineage with the international contemporary mokuhanga community, in which Western abstract and figurative sensibilities have been disciplined by the Japanese woodblock's material rigor. The work is documented through the Artsy listing on the secondary market (https://www.artsy.net/artwork/elspeth-lamb-parade-2), which preserves a record of the design under the artist's name. No museum acquisition is recorded in the working brief, and the print is therefore catalogued here from the secondary-market listing and the artist's established practice in Japanese-influenced studio printmaking.