IMC 2024 Echizen submission

This mokuhanga was produced for the 2024 International Mokuhanga Conference held in Echizen, the historic papermaking region in Fukui Prefecture renowned for its [washi](/glossary/washi) traditions. As a juried submission to an event centered on contemporary practitioners of the Japanese woodblock medium, the print represents de Haan's engagement with mokuhanga as a transcultural practice carried from its Edo-period origins into a Northern European studio context. Working from Norheimsund on the Hardangerfjord, de Haan typically draws on the fjord landscape — water surfaces, mountain silhouettes, and the diffuse light of the Norwegian west coast — and the Echizen submission sits within this broader landscape concern. Technically, mokuhanga in this conference context emphasizes water-based pigments applied with the [baren](/glossary/baren) onto handmade washi, often deploying [bokashi](/glossary/bokashi) gradations to render atmospheric transitions of sky, water, and stone. The piece extends de Haan's parallel investigation of architectural form and natural geography, a sensibility shaped by her training at the Technical University of Eindhoven and AKI Enschede, and reflects the conference's role in connecting Norwegian, Dutch, and Japanese print traditions through the shared material language of washi and woodblock.