SUNDAY AFTERNOON AT THE FENS POOL
Etching
50x38cm
1992
ENQUIRE
The Fens Pools are a series of three pools in Pensnett that were constructed during the industrial revolution to supply water to the extensive canal network of the region.
This print was in part triggered by Georges Surat’s paintings, ‘A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte’ and its companion work Bathers at Asnières both of which are commentaries on class and leisure time spent of the banks of the river.
The setting for this etching is the middle one of the three pools, which is where my own parents spent their courtship years. Amongst the stolen and burnt-out cars that have been dumped in the pool people swim. I was once shot at with a pellet gun as I swam in this pool and on the left people shoot a gun. The moped riders disturb the peace on this Sunday afternoon at the Fens pool.
This print was in part triggered by Georges Surat’s paintings, ‘A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte’ and its companion work Bathers at Asnières both of which are commentaries on class and leisure time spent of the banks of the river.
The setting for this etching is the middle one of the three pools, which is where my own parents spent their courtship years. Amongst the stolen and burnt-out cars that have been dumped in the pool people swim. I was once shot at with a pellet gun as I swam in this pool and on the left people shoot a gun. The moped riders disturb the peace on this Sunday afternoon at the Fens pool.