1981 Screenprint and colour aquatint, with etching, on white wove BFK Rives paper
397 x 250 mm. Purchase: The artist 1982
Number 7 of an edition of 35. Printed by the artist at the Visual Art Department, Llanbadarn Road, Aberystwyth. Part of the third edition of a set of four prints created in response to the poetry of the Rev. Professor W. Moelwyn Merchant (1913-1997), a poet, sculptor, academic and Anglican vicar at Llanddewibrefi between 1974 and 1978. All four images join together to form one landscape
Dyfed landscape and a poem. An etching of an abstract landscape featuring fields / geological strata and a white dove (based on Braque's doves) in flight. The latter is hidden in the design of the fields / geological strata. Dust-ground aquatint with etched lines and burnished highlights. Printed in black and blue-grey, blue-grey for clouds. Below is the following six verse poem by Moelwyn Merchant; MIRACLES AT LLANDDEWIBREFI GEOLOGY IS NEVER SIMPLE,/NOR, FOR THAT MATTER, VERY CONVENIENT. THE BISHOPS GATHERED AT DOL-Y-SAINT/WITH A SPRINKLING OF ABBOTS,/A MITIGATION OF LAYMEN;/THEIR PURPOSE: TO TELL PELAGIUS/THAT BOOTSTRAPS ARE NOT FOR LIFTING,/ THAT GRACE IS HUMBLER GEAR. BUT WHEN DEWI PREACHED THE TRUTH/(SIX FOOT AND MORE AND A GOOD VOICE)/ THEY SAID THEY COULD NOT HEAR. THE DOVE AND THE EARTH BETWEEN THEM/GAVE THE APPROPRIATE ANSWER:/THE DOVE WHISPERED THE TRUMPET WORDS/AND THE EARTH ROSE, A PULPIT ELEVATION. AND GEOLOGISTS CALL IT/A TERMINAL MORAIN