Nightbirds

Nightbirds

This drawing embodies most of what interested me and drove my art in the last 90’s early 2000’s – working in charcoal and earth colours like the cave painters of Lascaux; expressing the unconscious images that arose and intuitively developing them. In many of my drawing of that time I scratched and gouged the paper, rubbing out, painting over, so that the result was a distressed surface. Nightbirds also reflects that I’m often insomniac, kept awake by the ‘night terrors’ .... drawing them is a way of co-opting them, making them into a strength instead of draining away your power.

Charcoal pastel and conte on paper.