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
