All texts copyright Richard Shillitoe
foam flower
c. 1948
Watercolour and ink.
11¾ x 17¼in. (30.3 x 42.2cm.) (ss)
Provenance
NT.
Exhibited
London, Mayor Gallery, 1947, (drawings), no. 20.
Dublin, National College of Art, 1948, no. 103.
A decalcomania. Although the artist may have been thinking of the botanical plant, coolwort, this
work can most easily be read as the foam that forms on breaking waves. In style the work has much in
common with the Santa Warna series, all of which have a maritime theme. The stains of colour have
been given more definite form by being outlined with a fine-nibbed pen.
The decalcomania counterpart is with the NT.
