Orb XI

"Orb XI" is a contemporary mokuhanga print by Kate MacDonagh, created during the contemporary. This work demonstrates the artist's distinctive approach to abstraction and light and dark through the medium of Japanese woodblock printing.

MacDonagh is an Irish abstract artist born in Sligo and based in Dublin whose mokuhanga and watercolor practice explores dualities of light and dark, scale and ephemerality, stillness and movement, the spectral and the material. Her ethereal prints are distinguished by atmospheric delicacy.

This print represents Kate MacDonagh's contribution to the contemporary mokuhanga tradition during the contemporary. As with all works by this artist, it reflects both individual artistic vision and the broader cultural moment in which it was created. For collectors and admirers of Japanese printmaking, it offers a window into the sophisticated aesthetic world that produced some of the most beloved images in art history.