In contrast to her colourful paintings, Michele Franklin's monochrome etchings and drawings from this period, based around the element of water, and exploring her enduring theme of human loss, have developed organically from her earlier series exploring the Holocaust, directly inspired by Claude Lanzemann’s landmark documentary 'Shoah'. People are shown ‘overpowered or somehow entwined’ (as Franklin describes it) by the elements: desperate and often imposed on an equal and already troubled landscape. Here, the eye only gradually distinguishes the bank of elongated, flattened bodies, caught up in the jagged onslaught of water from a tsunami wave.