IMC 2024 Echizen submission

Submitted to the International Mokuhanga Conference held in Echizen in 2024, this print represents Schofield's contribution to the triennial gathering of mokuhanga practitioners from across the world. Echizen, in Fukui Prefecture, has produced [washi](/glossary/washi) for over fifteen hundred years, and the 2024 conference foregrounded the relationship between paper-making and printing — a pairing central to Schofield's own practice, which integrates mokuhanga with handmade papermaking and book arts. Works submitted to IMC exhibitions typically demonstrate the artist's current engagement with the tradition, executed on locally produced washi using water-based pigments, the [baren](/glossary/baren), and hand-cut cherry wood blocks. Schofield trained in mokuhanga in Japan and brings that direct lineage to her studio practice in the United Kingdom, where her output is characterised by restrained palettes, attention to the absorbent qualities of the paper, and a contemplative approach to mark-making. The Echizen submission sits within a body of work that treats the print not as a reproduction but as a single object whose materials carry meaning.