Drawing with Collage | Belderrig Currach by James Edward Scherbarth

Smooth stones balance on a dark hull, beneath a gray cloud of tangled lines.

Belderrig Currach is a drawing with collage by James Edward Scherbarth, dated 2020, in hand colored graphite and pencil on paper, signed and dated 08-26-2020 on verso. A currach is a traditional Irish boat, built of a light frame covered in hide or canvas, still found along the west coast. Here a square of scribbled gray graphite floats over a row of five dark pebbles. Below them sits a broad, rough-edged form in deep red-brown and black, outlined with a thin band of olive yellow. The paper around is left mostly white. It is 7 inches wide and 10 high.

Spare enough to hear the sea in it.