From Lissadell

An etching from 2013 looking outward from Lissadell, the demesne on the north shore of Sligo Bay associated with the Gore-Booth family and with W. B. Yeats's poem to Eva Gore-Booth and Constance Markievicz. The vantage suggested by the title is across the bay toward the flat-topped escarpment of Ben Bulben, with the wooded edge of the Lissadell estate or the bay's foreshore as middle ground. Worked as a pure etching rather than with aquatint, the image relies on bitten line — varied in weight by hatching density and bite time — to carry both the architectural and the atmospheric content, with whites of the paper standing in for sky and water. This is one of the earlier prints in Early's intaglio practice at Graphic Studio Dublin, which she joined in 2012, and it sits within her broader record of the western Irish coast: a study of an ordered cultural landscape — demesne, bay, mountain — rather than the more exposed harbor and lighthouse subjects of her later work.