281 x 152 mm. Purchase: The artist 1986 Funding support: Catherine Lewis and V & A
Number 8 of an edition of 20. On the same piece of paper as PR1401 and PR1403. The Prynu Dol Series are screenprints derived from abstract black-line illustrations for Kate Roberts' novel 'Prynu Dol a Storiau Eraill', first published in 1969 by Gwasg Gee of Denbigh. Each illustration accompanied the start of a chapter. The chapter this print illustrates describes an only child that grows to become a lonely woman finds nostalgic consolation in handmade doll garments she made as a child. Feeling a disjointed relationship with the objects she has made, the woman goes in search of a doll that could wear the clothes. Her standards are raised to an extent that the doll cannot contain the emotions attached to the clothes it wears. So much so that the woman begins to hallucinate believing she is dissolving into water in a bath
Colour field abstract with irregular shapes. Numerous fragmented red and yellow shapes on a pink background. The red shapes are generally slightly larger than the yellow shapes.These shapes are clustered together in the lower right quarter. On the left is a vertical curved line deviding two shades of pink. The yellow was the last to be printed. Paper has the embossed watermark 'cp'[?]. The image is part of a triptych. Printed in red, crimson, yellow and pink
