Untitled work by Kay Brown

An untitled woodblock print by Kay Brown produced in connection with her engagement with mokuhanga during 2024. As output from a UK-based artist working through the MI-LAB residency framework, the print likely reflects the structured progression of Basic Training Program C, in which participants work through registered key-block and color-block sequences using kento registration, hand-rubbed application with the baren, and water-based pigments on washi. Untitled works in contemporary mokuhanga frequently emphasize abstract or near-abstract composition, allowing the artist to foreground material qualities — paper grain, ink absorption, layered transparency — over narrative subject matter. Brown's training under Japanese master printers in Echizen, a region with a centuries-old paper-making tradition, would have given direct access to local kozo and gampi washi, surfaces that respond to bokashi gradient washes and overlapping color fields in ways industrial papers do not. The print sits within Brown's broader 2024 cohort of mokuhanga work, which spans both MI-LAB studio output and her IMC Europe exhibition submission.