This large sculptural clay painting of Tatchun Lake beach rocks in Yukon, Canada was commissioned by the Yukon Government as a way-finding picture in a care facility. Residents helped me to decide which Yukon beach to depict. Six real rocks were collected from the Tatchun area and inserted among my clay stones for people to seek out.

Thousands of handmade clay rocks make up this work, each carefully sculpted and attached one at a time. I hollowed out the larger rocks to reduce the weight and assist with adherence to the gesso-coated wood. I mixed and rolled over seventy colour variations for the modelling clay rocks. The caribou lichen was sculpted from rolled out strands of modelling clay, then detailed with tools after I attached each piece. The green moss was created by pressing in layers of green clays into my sticky clay background, then textured with a fine point clay tool. The sculptural modelling clay painting took three months to create and taught me about processes in art creation, as well as perseverance.

Rocks have a calming quality, I love looking at them and noticing their individuality.

The clay painting was framed by Northern Frameworks in a 5" depth custom shadowbox frame.

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