Skeletons III - Carreg Coetan Arthur, 2024
£45.00
Print size 13.6 x 6.5 cm, paper size 19.5 x 12.3 cm. Linocut and monoprint, hand burnished on Tosa Shi 54gsm, edition of 50.
The third print in a series exploring the ideas of perceived permanence and the fragile nature of memory. Nestled quietly between houses on the edge of Newport on the Pembroke coast, Carreg Coetan Arthur sports an incredible 17 ton capstone and was in use as a tomb for 450 years.
The remains of these ancient burial chambers we see today are only the stone bones of once great earthen mounds, and the ideas and beliefs that informed their creation are long forgotten. I wanted to play with this idea of fading memory by depicting the remaining stones by their absence.
By the nature of monoprints, each print is slightly different. The clouds and shadows subtly change across the edition, capturing the essence of time passing.
In this series I'm aiming to create images that appear to have the delicateness of charcoal drawings but with the permanence of ink, again questioning the idea of what we perceive to be permanent.
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