September song
This print is inspired by the change of the season from summer to autumn and each pigment used in the print relates to one of the seven inner planets, the Sun represented by gold, the Moon by silver, Mercury by vermillion, Venus by azurite, Saturn by white.
A mokuhanga print carved on shina plywood, printed on Azusa handmade mulberry paper (kozo washi) with pigements, 14 passes of colour, 4 blocks, 24 cm x 24.5 cm, edition of 11 with 1 AP, 2023
September song was launched in collaboration with Northern Print to celebrate their exhibition of selected prints by Fusako Yoshikawa and myself, during ‘An evening of Printmaking’ on September 14th 2023.