Cuttlefish Traps and Lobster Pots
Audio description
Medium
Permanent coloured pens on balsa wood
Date:
2010
Dimensions
H 10cm x W 93cm
Project/Commissioned by:
Creative Landscapes, English Heritage/Accentuate Residency, Hastings.
Exhibited
Coastal Currents House of Hastings
Dada South/Accentuate Upstream Showcase Brighton Festival.
Sale status
Available
Links to other web pages
www.sallybooth.co.uk/CreativeLandscapes/index.html
Contact link for sale and commission
www.sallybooth.co.uk/contact.html
Full description
A long panorama on bare balsa wood showing a view of fishing pots and nets on the beach, drawn with permanent coloured felt tip pens.
This is a light-hearted, colourful sketch, made quickly and as preparation for other drawings and paintings of the same subject. The buff coloured raw balsa with a faint grain running horizontally along its length, is left as a warm bare background for sky and beach. The pots are drawn in line with multi-coloured pens of red, green, purple, blue, yellow and black across the picture.
From left to right
A fisherman's wonky black wooden shed with a flat roof and rickety windows. His collection of pots stretch out in a line across the picture in all different shapes and sizes and in a big heap. Cubes, triangles, cylindrical and semi circular all muddled up together with broken netting. About two thirds of the way across are two stacks of enormous, wobbly cuttlefish traps drawn with black wiry line against the horizon. In the distance are a couple of empty rope spools like cotton reels and a rope leading to the outline of a boat.
