Untitled

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](/glossary/kento) registration, hand-rubbed application with the [baren](/glossary/baren), and water-based pigments on [washi](/glossary/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](/glossary/gampi) washi, surfaces that respond to [bokashi](/glossary/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.