Margaret White Art - Sanctuary - Waterfall linocut

A linocut from White's Sanctuary body of work depicting a waterfall. Although the matrix is linoleum rather than carved wood, the technique shares the relief, hand-rubbed approach used in mokuhanga, and White's use of [washi](/glossary/washi) as a printing substrate elsewhere in her catalogue signals her engagement with Japanese print traditions. Waterfall imagery has a long lineage in East Asian landscape printmaking — Hokusai's A Tour of the Waterfalls of the Provinces being the canonical sequence — and continues in contemporary mokuhanga as a subject suited to [bokashi](/glossary/bokashi) gradient inking, where the falling water and surrounding rock can be modulated through tonal washes. The Sanctuary framing positions the site as a contemplative or ecological subject rather than a topographical record, aligning the print with a meditative current in present-day Oceania-region landscape printmaking.