Ceri Richards 1903-1971
Two Tinplate Workers on a Break (Green), 1942
ink, watercolour & pastel on paper
12 x 9 1/2 in / 30.5 x 24.1 cm
"I chose that particular tinplate works because I was a bit familiar with it - father worked there, and it was one of the oldest in the country. I think what I was much aware of was the gloom ... when you went in there from the outside you couldn't see very much, and they worked in a perpetual gloom ... and this is what I got as well - the heat. It was very, very hot."
Ceri Richards