1990 Offset colour lithograph with half tone on Rivoli acid free paper
505 x 355 mm. Gift: The artist 1994
Number 25 of an edition of 50 plus 11 artist's proofs. Printed by Andrew Baldwin at the School of Art, Llanbadarn Road, University of Wales, Aberystwyth. The figure is based on a fairly well known albumen photograph of a Scottish girl gutting herring on the east coast of Scotland. The artist comments that ''the pickle she is pouring into the barrel is in homage to the Milk Pitcher, pouring for all time, by Vermeer''. The original drawing was made in 1987-8
A young fisherwoman, wearing a long sleeved top, a headscarf and an apron tied at her waist, pours pickle from a bucket into a funnel and into one of five wooden barrels of salted herrings. Calm sea? in background. Black drawing, with erased highlights, reproduced in half tone. Printed in black, buff and pale grey-blue
