stony faced

The Reid Memorial relief allowed Carrick to depart to some extent from the formal approach of his other memorials and produce a more expressive work with portraits imbued with some psychological insight. The scene is an unusual mix where the stoicism and serenity of classical faces are intermixed with all the individuality and humanity of faces which could be found in any Edinburgh street, or indeed 'Steamie' (the community washhouse or 'well' of the 1930's). This lends a dramatic quality to the scene.