RSA Scottish Art
Shore and Waves
 | Artist: Philip Reeves |
| Title: Shore and Waves | |
| Year: c1971 | |
| Medium: aquatint | |
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| Source: RSA | |
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| Description: Philip Reeves taught at Glasgow School of Art before becoming a founder member of the Edinburgh Print Workshop and subsequently the Glasgow Print Studio. He works mainly in print, paint and collage. Nature and its elements are central themes in his work. Shore and Waves is a print based on the movement of waves against the shore. Reeves has simplified the shapes at the point where the earth and water meet, down to the most basic description of a curve to the point where it is almost abstract. The overall impression is of a flat two-dimensional image that concentrates on the interaction between line, shape, pattern and texture. Monochromatic colour is used, which acts as a harmonising backdrop to the interplay of the shapes used. An incised printing method has been used - which creates areas of relief by pushing the neighbouring surface upwards - to suggest the way in which the waves cast their shape into the sand. Aquatint is a printing medium that produces an effect similar to watercolour washes in painting. This is a marvellous way to describe the sense of fluid movement of the sea, but it also produces a textured random graininess, which is suggestive of the sand on the shore. | |
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