Five For Silver

1998 original size 6" x 7"

One for sorrow,
Two for joy,
Three for a girl,
Four for a boy,
Five for silver,
Six for gold,
Seven for a secret
Never to be told.

As a child I never saw Magpies in my village. Then a few years back I started to notice them in the branches of the old oak trees on my parents farm. This illustration came out of my fascination with these new arrivals and was inspired by the old nursery rhyme 'One for Sorrow'.

 

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