Trinny and the Crow - Animation stills

Drawings

On the Right Foot.

I'm a bit strange but I give great hugs.

Let go!

Step too far!

On the up but still feeling down.

Help! I was hiding in the clothes rails and now Iv lost my mammy.

Such Humpty Dumpty

-When I grow up. I'm going to move to the countryside, live in a tree house and talk to the moon.
-Well. If bear in the big blue house can , you can.

-Get your photo taken. Keep your memories.
-Fuck Off!

Ah no.  I don't think there was any noticeable side effects?! 

Being lazy is actually hard work.

Remember you cried. You said ' how could anybody hurt you so badly? Then you did the same. Hilarious!

Wonder what's so funny

Artist Statement – Rachel Barton 
My primary concern is exploring the human condition. The conscious and subconscious torments and the haunting from the additional fears and preconceived notions that society has ironed into us. I have a multidisciplinary art practice that combines melancholy and humor to convey the absurdity and cruelty of life. Recently Iv been focusing on drawing and traditional hand drawn animation .My drawings are instantaneous – they quickly plunge into the (viewer's) subconscious leaving a very unique impression with a mix of deep sensitivity and black humor . They are accompanied by a narrative of poetic ramblings of disjointed trains of thought. I create characters out of abstract notions we channel and the people that frequent my every day. Some images give the sense of a bold child stamping its feet and others will tell you to get lost. These can read as a diary (and/or) a journey of fragmented memory. .

More 2015 Notebook Sketches

Yoouwhoo?!

What's the matter with us all? Don't allow one person's success knock your self belief. 

'Every Bit of me wanted to stop this from ending but you just have to let it go. I will always love you and that I will always keep!'

'Some days are just spent looking back at myself'

'Good-Bye seemed too final, too hard and cold. So we'r going to meet and join the bubble again sometime probably never in a tree house built by us, our affection and our love of blocking out the rest of the world.we agreed New Zealand. 
P.s I will miss you, me and the bubble. '  

'Hearts Smell
eyes well
how friends last 
I cannot tell.'

Full Up and sick of it...

Nightmare struggles from daytime disbelief

Pillow mumbles within the creases floor boards creek

that two day frown makes sleeping eyes weep

arms stretched out to the counted sheep

hands grabbing 

if your silent you can hear them bleat.....

Some tears fall out like spare change ........

Losing the absolute run of yourself

Wait?!...

Every dog has their day but some dogs don't know the days of the week!

What's Your super power?..

Under the thumb

Hair support for otters.

Supporting through thick and thin!

'I crumbled up my spine and became a mouse

you were a plant 

I was the one spoken prayer'

poem by Anis Mojgani

We all get sucked in from time to time

That ache which visits every now and again....

A place where time stopped and where nothing mattered.

The Caterpillar sounded like Elton John!

Do all caterpillars sound like Elton John?

Is Elton John a caterpillar?

Twist yourself into what ever shape or direction but you can't please some people ....

If you keep drawing otter's maybe you need to be having more fun.

Dinosaur's .....YES!

Birthdays are shit!

There just like Christmas except you miserable alone!

Whats Wrong with me?

Home is Nowhere

Is it really windy or is that scarf trying trying to kill that man?