Among the rarer paintings from an artist best known as one of Canada's foremost printmakers. Blackwood reserved the Renaissance medium of oil tempera for a discrete body of cod fishery works made in the wake of the 1992 moratorium. Painted five years after the closure, Dipnet is a memorial portrait of an implement of a vanished trade. This work was first exhibited in the artist's 1998 solo exhibition at Heffel Gallery Limited, Vancouver.