St Mary's | Rowing Art Print, Sculler at the Finish

St Mary's 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 looks at its sculler head-on from the water, blades at rest either side of the boat, the near spoon catching the light in the blue and white of the fictitious St Mary's club colours. The sculler holds the finish position, or the moment just after it, breath still coming back. The head-on perspective is the piece's quiet difference. Most rowing art shows the boat in profile because that is the easier drawing, but the view from the water in front of the boat is the view the empty lane sees, the umpire launch sees, the finish-line judge sees. It is the view the rower himself never sees. The plate hands it back to him. The St Mary's club and blade colours are drawn from the world of the Silverbourne novels, where the piece appears as a chapter heading. It is a rowing print for the sport, and it is a small object from a fictional world for readers of the books. Both readings work. A considered piece for rowers, coaches, coxes, clubhouses, boathouse bars, home offices, readers of literary rowing fiction, 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.