Artist Features......................................................................20 Lauren Goodey

Raining Leaves (2017) 21 x 29.7 cm Pen and ink

Lauren Goodey

Lauren Goodey is a multi-media illustrator. Raining leaves is a part of her Swedish Story Collection, an illustrative and written journal from her time walking in Sweden.

Raining Leaves by Lauren Goodey

It’s autumn and golden beech leaves are falling all around me, when the wind blows they fly into the sky, covering the grey clouds with glittering gold. A flock of birds visit me often, thousands of them, landing all around me, in the branches and in the leaves on the floor, feasting on beach nuts which would rain down from the sky. Little wings, brown tufts and pinky orange feathers, black diamonds as they fill the skies. A robin lives in a young beech forest near by, flocks of pigeons joyfully pass, buzzards whistle overhead, merlins weave in and out of the spruce trees in the forest.

I spent 48 hours in this spot. I was so overwhelmed with the beauty, so I drew. After a few hours of drawing, I went to sit in the spot I had drawn my self in. I looked back at where I had been sitting and I could see my life from a different perspective, and I could not work out if I had ever really been there or not.