In
The Flood, Boyd & Evans have depicted two rooms. In the room on the left hand-side, a dining table and chair are placed in the foreground. The room’s walls appear to be transparent and a mass of water seems to be press up against them. On the right, the water has entered a different room and a man dressed in a business suit stands alone, waist high in water. Boyd & Evans have used the aquatint technique in order to create these black and white prints. The aquatint technique produces a grainy surface which enables a heightened sense of tone, similar to pencil drawing. The artists also make paintings and photographs. Speaking about their way of working with images, which they refer to as ‘narrative’, Boyd & Evans have stated:
We do not like being referred to as realists, whether hyper-, super-, photo-, or just plain. Reality is so different from a picture. There is never any confusion. 'Pictorial' would be better, 'representational' quite good enough.
