284 x 157 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 PR1402 and PR1401. 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 Sam, a weak-willed teenager, lives in the shadow of his mother, a monument of vulgarity who overindulges herself and ignores his existence. He finds himself in a predicament when he arrives at his job in the print works in a clean pressed shirt. Ridiculed by his co-workers, who are accustomed to seeing him in unkempt clothes, Sam looks for answers; but his curiosity falls on deaf ears (notably his mother's). With no hope of understanding this phenomenon, Sam recoils into his home - a squalor of dirty coats
Colour field abstract with irregular shapes. A large rounded grey and small yellow, white, grey and pink shapes floating against a blue-grey background. The smaller shapes are clustered together in the upper half of the image. The large shape extends across most of the width of the lower margin. A thin curved line extends from the lower margin between the pencil inscriptions. The grey has possibly been printed twice reducing an ultramarine to a blue-grey. Yellow was the last to be printed. Paper has the embossed watermark 'cp'[?]. The image is part of a triptych. Printed in grey, blue, yellow and pink
