Stage Estampes japonaises : Découverte de la xylogravure

This workshop offers an immersion into the world of Japanese prints through an ancestral woodcut technique combining precision of gesture, sense of rhythm and the poetry of…

Through the different stages of woodblock printing, participants discover the complete creative process: preparatory drawing, carving the wood, inking and hand printing. Inspired by the aesthetics of Japanese prints, they explore clean forms, composition, the relationship to emptiness, textures and repetition. Participants design their own matrices and experiment with hand printing, mainly in blue monochrome.

Each participant leaves with their own prints, the result of work that is at once technical, sensitive and creative.

Suitable for beginners as well as experienced printmakers, this workshop combines the transmission of a traditional craft, Japanese visual culture and artistic experimentation, in an approach that is at once meditative, demanding and playful.