Devotion III
Devotion III is a woodblock print with chine collé additions on Japanese handmade washi made in the winter of 2026 with earth and mineral pigments.
Mokuhanga and chine collé hand-printed on 100% Japanese-grown kozo (mulberry) washi, handmade in Echizen, Japan, 55cm x 44cm, 8 passes, 4 blocks, variable edition of 20 with 2 AP’s.
This series of Devotion prints has developed over the past year, inspired by the inherent wisdom within our bodies that connect us to both the earth and the cosmos. Through daily meditation practice, colours and symbols appear through the visionings I journey to. I see these constellations carved into wood and printed onto paper as forming a sort of library of interior landscapes, and an honouring of my personal soul language. The act of making them returns me to ceremony, to an internal pilgrimage of exiled places reached through conscious awareness.
I reflect my connection to the land by choosing to use earth and mineral pigments. This choice connects me directly to the earth and allows an intuitive co-creation with nature. I am conscious of certain healing properties attributed to colours and their relationship to the energy centres of the body, which continue to inform my palette. I print on handmade mulberry paper (kozo washi) made in Echizen, Japan, a place with a sacred and historic relationship to washi production. I combine varying thicknesses of kozo washi in applying layers of translucent colour with the intention to allow the ethereal beauty and inherent quality of the washi to be illuminated.