Matt Brown
MATT BROWN
Matt Brown creates woodblock prints using the traditional Japanese hanga method, which uses water as a medium. Self-taught in his printmaking, Brown began experiments working the craft of color woodblock printmaking using Japanese methods in January, 1993. His teachers are trial and error, a study of prints and of books about prints, and fortuitous visits and conversations with other printmakers. He has learned a great deal from teaching.
"I feel grateful to the work of generations of artists and craftsmen in the pursuit of this craft that I love, many Japanese, but not all. Walter Phillips, Arthur Dow, Frank Morley Fletcher, Hiroshi Yoshida, these are hanga printmakers whose prints and published books on the subject I have found especially helpful."
He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College in 1981, and has been working the craft of color woodblock prints since 1993.