Resting Place is a suite of 6 drypoint/mezzotints completed in 2002 .

Each of the 6 drypoints is printed in an edition of 10 on 22” X 30” BFK Rives

The skeletal boats depicted in this series are the product of an ongoing exploration and fascination with imagery involving solitary boat hulls.

Beginning in Greenland in 1994, primarily in large paintings on panel but also through the mediums of lithography and monotype, I have periodically worked with haunting representations of the exposed ribs of eroding boats.
This small suite of drypoints is a distillation as well as a continuation of the earlier boat series.

The unique appearance of these drypoints is in part the result of the fact that the surface of the copper plate has been abraded to develop a mezzotint like surface. The image is then developed through the more traditional means of incising and burnishing.

Resting Place I -VI are available for $800.00 unframed

Resting Place V was awarded an honourable mention in Ernst & Young‘s 9th Annual Great Canadian Printmaking Competition.

~Karen Curry, 2003