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 PR1404. 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 migration into manhood as a boy wishes to escape the humdrum existence of the mine working proletariat. To escape his potential fate he takes the train away from the quarry community. He finds great distaste in what he left behind, the mugging air and dirty thumbprints blotted on his sandwiches. He finds solace in his new home in the form of a landlady that greets the weary traveller with plate of fish and chips
Colour field abstract with irregular shapes. Yellow turquoise and violet shapes floating against an orange background. Four yellow shapes occupy the centre. There are two patches of turquoise, one in the centre and the other, the larger, near the lower margin. Around the latter shape is an area of violet and a small area of red. The orange background is printed over red and yellow. Printed in orange, red, yellow, turquoise and violet. Paper has the embossed watermark 'cp'[?]. The image is part of a triptych
