282 x 156 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 PR1408 and PR1409. 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 lady, stricken with grief over the death of her three brothers who fell in combat, who sits alone at a dinner table consumed by pessimism. She reflects upon how she has coped with the loss. She has sold the brothers' canaries but retained three books dear to her dearly departed brothers. These books become her only hope as she finds courage in what she writes
Colour field abstract with irregular shapes.Two yellow and one red-pink shape floating against a pink-grey background. Each of these three shapes is topped by a small black shape. The lower shape, the largest with a bubbled texture to the yellow ink, also has a small turquoise shape attached. Shapes do not extend to margins. The background is pink printed over black. Printed in black, red-pink, turquoise and cadmium yellow, colours overlap to create additional colours. The image is part of a triptych
