Kay A Brown

Hi, my name is Kay Brown. I am an artist printmaker and urban sketcher based in Hamble, Hampshire, UK.

Hot off the press! October 2025: my wood engraving ‘The Needles Lighthouse’ has been selected for the Society of Wood Engravers 88th Annual Exhibition 2026 (see my News page for more details).

In the Autumn 2024 I travelled to Echizen, Japan, for a five week residency, joining a growing number of international artists who have benefited from the MI-LAB AIR programme (Mokuhanga Innovation Laboratory Artist in Residence) since its inception in the late 1990’s. I feel very privileged to have been taught many of the unique techniques of Japanese wood block printmaking process, now called Mokuhanga, from Japanese sensei and to have made kozo washi in one of their traditional paper making workshops. Having returned to the UK I am brimming with ideas for new prints and ways to explore some of the new techniques I’ve learnt. So watch this space!

My visit to Japan reinforced my love of wood as a medium for printmaking, particularly using techniques that are eco-friendly and portable, such as Mokuhanga and wood engraving. These techniques, the mark making and the grain of a wood block, seem well suited to creating prints that capture the wild beauty of the sea, its movement, wave patterns and reflections of light, reminding me of times sailing out of sight of land on the seemingly infinite open sea.

This page contains a selection of my prints and cards from my portfolio. Hover over each image to select more information about each print. Older prints can be viewed by selecting the button at the bottom of the page.