282 x 154 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 PR1405 and PR1406. 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 a young man, wandering in disorientated thought, who resides in a mental home and takes comfort that his mental youth may save him from the clutter of an aged and confused mind. He finds his fellow inmates (who have all fallen victim to the ravages of age) have created immunity to their sickness; whilst he still wrestles with his warped iconography he draws in the sand. The images he creates, that include a half-born child and a man battling a burning hedge, stay in the sand and refuse to be washed away
Colour field abstract with irregular shapes. Violet, red and yellow shapes floating against a turquoise background. In the upper half are small fragmented shapes in red and yellow and a large violet 'L' shape. In the lower half is a complex red shape. On the lower margin are small areas of violet, red and yellow moulded together. A small area of the turquoise background is paler revealing the texture of the screen. Printed in turquoise, red, violet and cadmium yellow, colours overlap to create additional colours. Paper has the embossed watermark 'cp'[?]. The image is part of a triptych
