WOODCUT &  TAKU-HON PRINTS

SOLO SHOW
Samayou / Samoilua
Galleria Duetto, Helsinki 
7 August – 1 September 2019

Heinonen’s woodcuts are delicate and subtle, in fact elegant in their construction.    - Seppo Heiskanen, art critic



THE WOODCUT PRINTS are in limited editions of 8 or 15 prints, with a separate edition of unique hand-painted colour prints. They are printed with oil colours on thin Japanese or Chinese paper made of mulberry and blue sandalwood tree fibres. Prints are painstakingly hand-carved out of birch or pine veneer and is  hand-printed by the artist using a baren instead of press.  

THE TAKUHON PRINTS are unique monotypes printed as a relief directly from the surface of the object. This historic printing technique has been in use in China and Japan since the 6th century.  Printed onto the same paper as my woodcuts with oil-based japanese taku-hon ink.