Rye, from Camber 1907

Muirhead Bone made this etching, Rye, from Camber, with ink on paper, and what strikes me is the quietness, achieved by a very definite approach to mark making. There's this beautiful sense of atmosphere through the texture of the paper, it’s so light, and the lines are so thin, like whispers. Look at the way he suggests the building with such minimal strokes, it's almost like he's just hinting at its existence. I keep coming back to the masts of the boats, these vertical lines that break up the horizontality of the landscape, each one slightly different. It's like a conversation between line and space. Bone's work reminds me a bit of Whistler’s etchings, that same interest in capturing a sense of place through delicate lines, the way he suggests form without fully defining it. It's a reminder that art is an ongoing conversation, each artist adding their voice to the mix.