Net Shops and Boats
Medium
Pen on paper
Date:
2010
Dimensions
H 35cm x W 28cm
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 portrait format, black pen, line drawing on white paper.
This image was drawn standing on The Stade looking through a gap between two net shops, with part of a boat and more net shops in the distance.
This is one of several simple line drawings made by Sally as she got to know The Stade. They are working drawings, designed to work out compositions for later paintings, to get to know the buildings, and in this case, to try out views for possible drawing installation sites.
The fishing huts on The Stade are mostly set in rows. In this picture the viewer is standing in the gap between two huts. The edges of the sides of the huts flank either side of the paper, framing it and the perspective of the lines of horizontal wooden cladding leads us into the picture.
The gap the viewer is standing in is where a net shop would have been, but it no longer exists. All that is left is a bit of shingly gravel marked in the picture by a few speckly spots and dots leading into the distance, and a strange small circular object protruding from the ground right at the bottom of the picture- probably an old floor light that doesn't work.
Through the gap, sticking out sideways from behind the left hand net shop is a boat, apparently supported by a couple of horizontal runners which stick out at right angles underneath it. The boat has a mast and a rectangle of material which is hanging over its side in front of the viewer. The curved shape of the body of the boat is emphasised by simple lines that curve upwards towards the bow.
Partly visible behind the boat are two more tall net shops facing the viewer. The one on the right has long thin vertical doors rising to three levels and indicated only by vertical lines for the wooden shutters. The wooden clapboard of the net shops is indicated by rows of horizontal lines quickly and scruffily drawn.
Below the right hand net shop,at the bottom and to the right are three bollards and in the distance can be seen a lamp post and some cliffs very sketchily drawn as they are far away.
The overall feeling of the picture is of a variety of black lines - vertical, horizontal, curved or perspectival on a white background.
