‘balance’, ‘uncertain’ & ‘collection’

photograph og three framed pebble prints by Emily Ketteringham

Each of these three prints contains the same nine pebbles, but arranged in a different composition each time.  Each pebble is based on an actual pebble borrowed from a beach visited in the last four years.  Each has something special that caught my eye.  Two are not real pebbles at all, but fragments of brick, smoothed to roundness by the action of the waves.

Sometimes pebbles need to be balanced precariously, teetering on the edge of falling.  Sometimes they pile up more readily, happily sitting in towers.  Other times they like to be arranged perfectly precisely, like museum specimens ready to go on display.

The prints are finished with iridescent and pearlescent inks so one or two pebbles shimmer when they catch the light.

Please visit this page if you would like to buy these prints.

detail of pebble screen print by Emily Ketteringham. Two small rocks, one brown, one grey blue
Above and right, details of pebbles seen in all three prints.
Below, left to right –
‘uncertain’
‘balance’
‘collection’
detail of pebble screen print by Emily Ketteringham. Sea worn brick fragment
Screenprint by Emily Ketteringham. Two carefully balanced piles of rounded beach pebbles.
Screenprint by Emily Ketteringham. A carefully balanced pile of 7beach pebbles with one lone pebble standing next to it.
Screenprint by Emily Ketteringham. Nine different beach pebbles arranged neatly on the page.