1980 Etching with aquatint in black, with hand colour, on white wove paper
302 x 332 mm. Purchase: The artist 1987 Funding support: Catherine Lewis and V & A
Artist's proof. Copper plate still extant. The 'Camberwell Set' are six etchings commissioned by Tony Messenger at Camberwell School of Art to be sold as a portfolio. The project was shelved and the prints never editioned. The plates were sent from London to Chapman's studio where they were worked from drawings. Chapman made two slightly different plates of each image. Two paintings and a drawing were made of this scene. One painting and the drawing are in the collection of the National Library and the other painting (1987) was in the artist's studio circa 1992. This image is between Maerdie and Ferndale.
Urban landscape with a back lane, near Maerdy, Rhondda; foreground, a stone wall with a gate, a shed, and two sheep on a lane at the back of houses; middleground, gardens, sheds, clothes hanging on a washing line, telegraph poles, a bush, lean-to outhouses and rows of terraced houses with chimneys; background, rows of terraced houses and a wood on the slope of a flat topped hill. Dust-ground aquatint used for dark areas of the houses and hills. Vigorous hatching is also used for hills. Burnished highlights. All areas below the horizon are hand coloured with water-based brown ink applied by a large soft brush
