281 x 157 mm. Purchase: The artist 1986 Funding support: Catherine Lewis and V & A
Number 8 of an edition of 20. On the same piece of paper as PR1407 and PR1409. The Prynu Dol Series are screenprints derived from abstract black-line illustrations for Kate Roberts' novel 'Prynu Dol a Storiau Eraill', first published in 1969 by Gwasg Gee of Denbigh. Each illustration accompanied the start of a chapter. The chapter this print illustrates describes Mrs J. who has become bitter that she bore no children. The closest she comes to expressing any love is in the numerous dolls she buys. Wanting to love a child so badly, she steals the sought-after 'Mona Lisa' doll that captivates Mrs J. with its gaze. Making her husband the scapegoat for having had no children, she places 'Mona Lisa' on the mantelpiece as an unclean spirit to frighten him
Colour field abstract with irregular shapes. Red-pink, yellow and turquoise shapes floating against an orange background. The latter is yellow ink, with a bubbled texture, printed over red. The lower half of the image consists of eight squarish red-pink shapes split into two vertical columns of four. In the centre of these squares are areas of yellow, turquoise, orange or pink-grey. In the upper half is areas of yellow, turquoise and black moulded together in a head-like shape with two white eyes in the centre. Printed in red-pink, black, turquoise and cadmium yellow, colours overlap to create additional colours. The image is part of a triptych
