Now Sleeping in these Peaceful Groves

I put up my 3rd year exhibition today (for this semester so far.) The exhibition consisted of 14 x A1 ink drawings. My work was about death mostly, the aesthetics and ideas behind it.
I chose to look at dead insects firstly, which you can see in my little trinket box (and in my previous post) I became really fascinated by how weird these creatures became in their deathly state, and when you looked at them in such detail. I sourced images of dead animals & I moved onto painting dead birds, dead foxes, dead deers, dead rabbits, and made a series of paintings (around 90 in total!) of these creatures, I found it especially interesting if they were twisted, contorted, rigid, somehow changed in their death.
I worked in black drawing ink for most of the images, but began to introduce colour into my birds, butterflies and deers. I was interested in bringing these flashes of colour in but also I was interested in the scale of the things, a tiny fox next to a gigantic butterfly, or a mouse as big as a deer, I think the surreal aspect of the paintings is very important.
The drawings ended up being very beautiful things, which seems ironic when you look at my subject matter, but I think that's sortof my point behind it all.