Rain Stopped Play by Doug Hyde

Look at these little tinkers, their alternative game of cat and mouse prematurely terminated by the onset of adverse conditions, as they seek mutually acceptable refuge in a nearby bucket until such time as the rain passed and play can be resumed.

There are few contemporary fine artists out there who could lend a seemingly simplistic piece such a narrative depth as acclaimed exponent of the popular genre, Doug Hyde, who has repeated previous illustrative feats by visually affording us this, his brand new reveal.

Released, along with rest of his latest, limited edition print collection, this autumn, 'Rain Stopped Play' is recognised Hyde territory, yet with one big difference: colour. Or rather, a distinct absence of his more naturally occurring expansive colour spectrums...

...which have instead given way for his current new, monochrome direction, which if anything, adds even more graphical volume to the unfolding pictorial story.

'Rain Stops Play' is another new Doug Hyde limited edition print designed to tickle our 'sense of cuteness'!. With the cat and the mouse characters sheltering from the rain in an over turned flower pot.

Doug Hyde reminds us that its not just at Wimbledon tennis that rain interrupts, these two have had to stop their fun (or fighting a la Tom & Jerry) until the sun comes back out!