Untitled

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](/glossary/bokashi) gradients, deliberate [kento](/glossary/kento) registration tests, deployments of the embossing technique [karazuri](/glossary/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](/glossary/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.