Catch and Drive | Rowing Art Print, Sweep Rower at the Catch

Catch and Drive is a rowing art print from the Rowing Series by Alexander Paul Burton, published under the imprint Tremolo A Tiempo. Drawn in Faber-Castell pencil and Japanese sumi ink, the piece catches a sweep rower on bow side at the working end of the stroke, blade buried, weight through the handle, shoulders opening for the drive. He wears a cap and sunglasses, dressed for a long outing rather than a race day. Behind him, the river banks away into a stand of trees and open ground, sketched in with the looseness of a scene glimpsed between strokes. Where the collection's opening plate, The Boathouse, held its rower still inside the vanishing point of the beams, Catch and Drive is out on the water and mid-effort. The mark-making is deliberately less resolved, because the catch is not a tidy moment. It is a moment of applied force, water and blade meeting, and the drawing lets that energy stay in the line rather than smoothing it out. A considered piece for rowers, coaches, coxes, clubhouses, boathouse bars, home offices and anyone drawn to the parts of the sport that happen out of sight of the finish line. Printed on demand by Gelato on museum-grade paper, produced fresh to order and shipped from a facility near you.