Untitled work by Kay Brown

This untitled print sits within Kay Brown's 2024 mokuhanga output, the year in which she undertook the MI-LAB Basic Training C residency and exhibited at the International Mokuhanga Conference Europe in Echizen. MI-LAB's pedagogical approach combines hands-on instruction from Japanese master printers with studio time in which residents produce their own work. Prints emerging from this dual structure often retain visible traces of foundational exercises — controlled bokashi gradients, deliberate kento registration tests, deployments of the embossing technique karazuri — alongside more personal compositional decisions. Without a title to fix interpretation, this work asks the viewer to attend to its constructed surface: the layered transparent inks, the slight relief of the carved blocks, the tooth of the washi. Brown's practice, situated in England and informed by direct Japanese workshop training, contributes to the geographical broadening of mokuhanga that the IMC has actively cultivated since its founding in 2011.