I really love creating textured art pieces that change in different lighting. Pieces that people can also touch and further engage with. Over the years, I’ve had a bit of a play around sticking textured modelling clay to canvas. The results have been OK; a bit rough around the edges. Several of those artworks that I created have now been stripped from their wooden frames and re-purposed.

So, this year I wanted to have a go at creating something using clay again,. Something that has a luxurious look and feel. The results are two large pieces, each 40″ by 40″, which I have called ‘Nightfall’.

Each Nightfall was created using 2kg of clay! The clay shapes were cut, texturized and laid out on our deck in the very hot Québec sun to dry. Once dry, they were then painted several times in silver, then attached to a white painted canvas using a gel medium. The finishing touch was a brush over with high gloss gel.

Each Nightfall has a different design and change in appearance throughout the day. You can check out some pictures of the two Nightfalls in different lighting below…