A Mokuhanga print hand printed with a baren on 64 gsm Japanese Pansion kozo washi with cut edges float mounted on white conservation board with kozo hinges.
Edition size: 9
Image size: 170 x 125 mm approx.
Mount: 300 x 210 mm
Price: £60
This traditional Japanese water based wood block print was created with three blocks, three colours, nori (rice starch paste) and 8 passes of pigment.
This summer we sailed around Eire and Northern Ireland in a clockwise direction; a challenging ‘cruise’ made more so by endless windy weather and big seas. There are few places of shelter on the west and north coasts of Eire so each passage was a relatively long day sail, involving beating out into headwinds to a headland, coping with the confused seas and outlying rocks off each headland as well as the Atlantic swell, before enjoying relatively fast downwind sails to our evening’s anchorage or harbour. Many days we sailed with not another boat in sight, contrasting strongly with the busy towns we visited along the coast where tourists followed the recently established 1600 mile coastal road trip, the Wild Atlantic Way, marked by attractive rusty brown corten signposts.
This print is inspired by one of our few days of sun, sailing in the shadow of Croagh Patrick, County Mayo, a distinctive pyramid shaped mountain famed for its site of pilgrimage, towards the surreal landscape of ‘drowned drumlin’ islands of Clew Bay.
October 2025
Kay A Brown 