Rectangle with an overall textured surface with a mix of patterns. Surface of the plate has been scored with lines in all directions and with a blotted-like texture. Printed in black ink.
In an interview at Glasgow Print Studio on 11th May 2011, the artist stated that “It could almost be an area of the chalk cliffs on the south coast but what it is, is a Quarry.” Reeves used to go to the Cotswolds and Gloucestershire to draw the landscape and some of the chalk quarries. In the quarries he saw huge areas of patterned abstraction within abstraction in the areas of quarried chalk. In this image just one part of the landscape has been selected, focussing on one area and cutting off from grass above. Repeated marks and scratch marks seen on the image recall the process of the stone being quarried and horizontal and vertical lines can be seen. The image is also reminiscent of a map, a mountainscape seen from a map. Reeves had known the landscape for years as he was born in Gloucestershire and went to the Cheltenham Art School. He used to cycle to the Cotswolds with his sketchbook, sketching shapes in the countryside and regularly stayed in the area in the 1960s.
