We are all nesting
“We are all nesting” Pencil on paper 30 x 22 cm 2014 We are all making our, homes, feathering our nests, filling them with consumables, but at what price to the environment?
A gallery of drawings by Marnie Pitts
“We are all nesting” Pencil on paper 30 x 22 cm 2014 We are all making our, homes, feathering our nests, filling them with consumables, but at what price to the environment?
“Repercussions” Mixed Media 120 x 100 cm 2011 A large drawing that is a tangle of cities, roads, roots and buildings. Nature is finding a way back in through the cracks.
“Right inside” Pencil on paper 30 x 40 cm 2011 I’m split down the middle, I can’t decide, my heart is hanging out. The bare bones are there in the center and they are rising out.
Thylacine Mixed media on paper 2013Thylacine is a drawing from my series Shameful Australia. I wanted to make a drawing about how the change in population changed the wildlife of Australia. The Thylacine or Tasmanian Tiger was effected by disease and the introduction […]
“Feel The Pressure” Pencil on paper 40 x 30 cm 2009I’m getting older, we all are. I feel that we are encouraged to deny this reality and attempt to appear forever youthful. Media ideas of beauty are very narrow and it […]
“The convincing ground” Pencil on paper 2013Around 1833 one of the many massacres of the Australian indigenous people took place, it is known as the Convincing Ground Massacre. I think the name “Convincing Ground” really focused me to try and depict […]
“Lament of the Wolf”Pencil on paper35 x 28 cmThe study for my painting by the same name (see painting here).
“Berths” Ink on paperA drawing I made after a visit to Greenwich. I was sitting up on One Tree Hill, where Queen Elizabeth the first used to sit. I could see the Thames stretched out in front of me and […]
“Primal”Ink on paper
“In the dark” Pencil on paper 28 x 28 cm 2008 A quiet moment of reflection on our connection to nature.
“Encased” Pencil on paper 38 x 28 cm The preliminary drawing for the painting “Encased” you can see the painting here, it is about the need to keep your children safe.
“Disquiet” Pencil on paper 40 x 30 cm I made this drawing before the painting of the same name (see it here). “No tree has branches so foolish as to fight amongst themselves” Ojibwa Indian saying.