Trish Yates. Image courtesy of the Artist.
What: Introduction to Japanese woodblock printing
When: Saturday 2 May, 2026, 2 - 3pm
Where: M16 Artspace Foyer, 21 Blaxland Crescent, Griffith
Cost: Free
Mokuhanga Demonstration with Trish Yates
Join exhibiting artist, Trish Yates, in discussing the origins of Japanese Woodblock Printmaking and showing examples of Mokuhanga prints. She will bring along wood blocks, tools, special brushes and barens. Trish will explain the registration method, the papers, pigments, and tools used in creating Mokuhanga prints. She will demonstrate the printing technique using water based colours on Japanese paper.
About the Artist
Trish Yates is a Sydney-based printmaker. Her background is Visual Arts teaching but since retiring she has become a full- time artist/printmaker. She has done additional studies at Meadowbank TAFE, The Stables Studio, Galston, Santa Fe, New Mexico USA and at MI-Lab, Kawaguchiko, Japan.
Themes that have always interested her come from the natural environment. Proximity to Sydney bushland, travels in Australia and more recently excursions to the Central Coast, NSW have greatly influenced her work and have enhanced an innate affinity she has with the natural wonders of our unique landscape.
Trish has been using Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock technique) for 15 years to express her ideas but she also enjoys working and experimenting with Monotypes, Collagraph, Intaglio and other Relief techniques. In 2018 she won a 5-week residency in Japan to further her knowledge of Mokuhanga printmaking techniques.
The process of researching with drawings, paintings and photographs completed on site on the Central coast has provided a springboard for artworks completed later in her studio. These works on paper will form part of the group exhibition “Shorelines”
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