Granda Glover on Bragg's Island | 1991 | Etching 50 of 75 30x30 building up texture and dimension

building up texture and dimension across the canvas

White villas and tall cypress trees overlook a blue Mediterranean coastline from a garden of rounded rocks and vivid vegetation

possibly in the aftermath of a gentle rain

impasto brushwork throughout the foliage

Emerald Lake reflects the dark evergreen shoreline and angular mountain forms of the President Range in Yoho National Park

Granda Glover on Bragg's Island | 1991 | Etching 50 of 75 30x30 building up texture and dimensionAbout the Artwork Granda Glover on Bragg's Island (1991) is an etching and aquatint with hand colouring by David Blackwood (19412022), honouring his maternal grandfather, David Glover. The composition depicts an elderly man in dark work clothes walking down a sloping path toward the water, purposeful and determined. Behind a white picket fencesections hand coloured in coral pinkstands the willow tree planted by his wife Alfreda, its delicate branches