11/29/2023 0 Comments Moku hanga birch plywoodSome curious zeitgeist affects artists so that one year, I remember that there were a huge number of entries containing crows. MB: When we are judging, we often notice a prevailing theme in the entries but that does not necessarily correspond to the work that makes it to the walls of the exhibition. Liz K miller, ‘Circular Score #5’ (Etching).ĭM: Were there any prevailing themes amongst the entries, or amongst the selected works? It is printed on wire mesh, which is a technique that I have never seen before. I also was very struck by Paint the Town Red by Heather Meyerratken which is of a street scene in Havana. There was another collaborative landscape by a group called Pine Feroda that is equally monumental. The detail and level of work that has gone into this piece is breathtaking. One in particular that struck me was by a large monochromatic linocut called An Offer of Love, which is a collaborative work by Ade Adesina and June Carey. ![]() ![]() The scale and exact techniques are not always apparent from digital files so there is a proper delight in receiving the physical entries. Mychael Barratt: Every year there is an abundance of works that particularly stand out. Were there any entries (or entrants) that particularly stood out for you or were especially to your taste? At Jackson’s we have been looking forward to the show for several months, so with the exhibition opening this week, we spoke to two of the selectors, Trevor Price (Vice President of the RE) and Mychael Barratt (President of the RE), about the make-up of the exhibition and the picture it gives of contemporary printmaking.ĭuncan Montgomery: Hi Mychael, thanks for talking to us about NOPE. The exhibition seeks to show the best in contemporary printmaking, and is run by the RE, the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers. The other prints are entitled “Leafy Lullabies” (the crow is listening to, and looking for bugs under the leaves), and “Chrysanthemum” (inspired by a Hirosado print and an image of my niece).The National Original Print Exhibition 2017 runs from 20th September to 1 October 2017 at Bankside Gallery on London’s South Bank. The first, “Breakfast Bee?” (the nuthatch and the bee), is in the Wingtip Press 2019 Leftovers print exchange. Here are my first prints using this process. San Francisco-based Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) selected Berkeley artist Miwako Nishizawa, born in Kyoto Japan, to create pieces for its 2016 poster art series using the moku hanga woodblock technique. McClains Printmaking Supplies is a good source for tools, blocks, and books about the process.Ĭarving can take a long time, but it’s an opportunity for contemplation, for “being in the moment” with your image, and the blocks eventually become works of art, along with the prints. As the images are all hand-pulled, moku hanga prints don’t need a press, and using water-based inks makes this for an easy clean-up. ![]() For multiple colors, multiple blocks are carved, with exact registration (kento) marks on each block. To make a print, the block’s surface is saturated with water color and nori paste, and then slightly dampened paper is laid down and pressed with a buren. The image, a type of relief print, is produced by carving away everything except the lines to be printed. ![]() In modern times the images may have changed, but the process remains much the same, and its simplicity is very appealing, requiring not much more than a block of wood, a cutting tool (gouge), ink, and paper. Moku hanga is a traditional Japanese form of woodblock printmaking notable for black outlines, vibrant colors, and angled perspectives (think of Hokusai and Hirosada).
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