Participant working on a woodblock print

A figure study of a single person engaged in printmaking, likely shown from above or at an oblique angle that emphasizes the working surface. The print probably captures one of the discrete steps in the mokuhanga process — carving with a hangi-to, registering paper to kentō marks, or pressing the baren across a freshly inked block. The composition draws on the Edo-period shokunin-zukushi tradition of artisan portraits while updating it for contemporary European practice. Everaert co-founded Mokuhanga Magic with Vladimir Ivaneanu in part to document and develop a community of practitioners outside Japan, and individual portraits of workshop attendees fit that record-keeping aim. The water-based pigments and washi support require restraint in the line work; bokashi gradients can suggest the lit surface of a workbench or the shadow falling across a bent figure without resorting to opaque ink masses.