Ireland 2012 Donegal

Shannaghdoo and Kinny Lough, Donegal.

'I went on auto pilot for 3 hours, after taking a nap in the car and wondering whether I could be bothered to do anything at all.  I thought for a moment I might just sleep, then I thought what a waste coming all the way to draw and not to do anything.  Then I started and I slipped seamlessly into the zone of looking and mapping, feeling my way around the gentle hills, reading the colours and light.  It's strange as I seem to drawer like some one from another time.

The pieces transcend trend and I think that if you set out to do a beautiful drawing or painting your ego and one's need to do something perfect does not help the creative process.  You need to go on the journey as if you have walked up the hill.  The siesta approach, of being in the time and air and without wanting to do anything it gives one the space and confidence to start, what I am trying to say is that when I start to draw it's not my born right to come away with a beautiful piece.  You have to look and feel or you take away nothing.  Expect nothing and you'll get something.

 © Sally Titterington 2012

Cuffed & Stuffed

    

Black Birds: Rooks, Ravens, Crows, Owls, Jays and Magpies

A Brush With Death

I was drawing this raven and went out on my bike and saw a girl with high patent leather boots, Gucci in style, layed out on the road being attended to by paramedics. The street and traffic stood still and I felt a cold shudder crawl down my back. The raven is deemed to be the bird who appears at death and takes the soul of the virtuous up to heaven. As I road along I thought is the girl dead or has she had a brush with death? Then I thought what about when a raven has a brush with death? An advertisment for a premium brand, a huge back lit bill board on the motorway. 

The Claw Cuffs

This is a presentation at the Dragon’s Den when an obsolete designer and lawyer come together to make money, they propose that birds should do bird and we should put bad birds in the clink, with specialy designed clinking bling cuffs. 

 The Raven’s Tale

This is a story about how a guilty Raven avoids prosecution for Murderous Acts, is a comment on all the things people get away.

N.B. Images and Text © Sally Titterington 2011

 

'Hear us, you who are no more than leaves always falling, you mortals benighted by nature, 

You enfeebled and powerless creatures of earth always haunting a world of mere shadows, 

Entities without wings, insubstantial as dreams, you ephemeral things, you human beings:

Turn your minds to our words, our ethereal words, for the words of the birds last forever'

[Astrophane’s The Birds]