On September 25, 2024, JASA hosted a webinar with Scottish multidisciplinary artist Paul Binnie, who works in the tradition of Japanese woodblock printing, particularly shin-hanga. Paul speaks about his early training as a painter in Scotland and then as a woodblock printmaker in Japan in the 1990s. He discusses the influences on his work, the changes that have taken place and the direction his work has followed over a career of more than thirty years. The presentation shows illustrations of many of his woodblock prints and a number of oil paintings to show the progress of his work from the 1990s until today.
Paul Binnie was born in Scotland in 1967, and studied art history at the University of Edinburgh and painting and etching at Edinburgh College of Art from 1985 to 1990. After taking his Master’s degree (with honors) in 1990, he moved to Paris and then in 1993 went on to Tokyo to study woodblock printmaking for almost six years. In 1998, Paul moved to London, where he set up his studio and worked for twenty years. At the end of 2018 he relocated to San Diego. Paul’s work is held in many public collections, including The Metropolitan Museum, New York; The National Museum of Asian Art, Washington, DC; The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam; The British Museum, London; and The National Library of Australia, Canberra, among others.