Accession Code: wu0354w Title: Harbour Date completed: Medium: Drawing Material: Gouache Height (mm): 318 Width (mm): 280 Depth (mm): n/a Inscription: Signed Location Name: Senate House Location Description: Wellbeing Support Services Location Floor: 1

In Harbour, Laurence Roche invites the viewer into his painting through the perspective he has used. The large rocks in the foreground appear so close to the viewer that s/he could almost reach out and touch them. The artist has used a variety of brush marks; flat even brushstrokes for the sky; sweeps of paint for the rocks in the foreground; squiggles for the rocks and sand in the distance and thin, black lines for the boat. It is a hot, summers day; the sun reflects off the rocks against a clear, blue sky.

There is a feeling of calm in the painting and the absence of human presence concentrates our attention on the stillness of the landscape.