Rook Collage Collage on paper 90x70cms (paper size) Framed This Rook collage is made from a variety of coloured paper pieces - blues, greys, blacks, built up over several layers to create the feather patterns and the bone structure underneath. I start with a drawing and this one comes from a week I spent on the island of Colonsay in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland.
Crows are everywhere, crows are scavengers, crows are intelligent, crows are tricksters. Who has not been entertained by hilarious Crow antics? Where there are scraps, there are crows. Re-reading Darwin's Origin of Species, I was struck by how dismayed he would be at the loss of so many species. This bird - made as it is of many different types of feathers and on a background of pages from Darwin's book - reminds me of all…
I love watching the new fledglings emerge in the spring, learning to fly, learning to be grown ups. And charcoal really shows the layers and shapes of the feathers. 56x76cm Charcoal on paper Framed
