Sybil Andrews
Ploughing Pasture - 1955
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Linocut
29.1 x 37.5 cm (inches: 11½ x 14¾.)
Coppel SA54
Printed in four colours (raw sienna, alizarin crimson, grey and ivory black) on buff oriental laid tissue
Collections: British Museum; Glenbow Museum, Calgary
Letter from Sybil Andrews 11/08/1978 about Ploughing Pasture:
'The drawing for this print was made early in the war when they began to plow (sic) up pasture for food crops.
I knew we were not allowed to draw or sketch because of spying but there appeared to be nothing but an empty field and no one in sight and I wanted the sketch of the old man and so I risked it.
I was startled by the sudden arrival of a military policeman on a motorbike and found I had alerted the army and the police and that there was a machine gun post in one corner of the field which I did not know.
Fortunately the policeman in our village knew or spoke up for me - it quietened down and I escaped arrest but I got my drawing. They could make nothing of it, just a few lines and curves meant little and had nothing to do with machine guns so it blew over. But later in the war, while working in the shipyard, I was given permission by the firm to sketch and a written permit to carry with me which was wonderful.'
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