The Paintings of Mary McClelland

Mosaics

While staying in Carthage, Tunisia for 9 months in 1963, Mary, her husband David, and the two younger children Sarah and Jabez lived in a house by the beach, across the street from a Roman ruin - the thermal baths of Antonin.  Mary spent many hours walking along that beach, where parts of the ruin had slowly become submerged.  The beach was littered with mosaic stones that had broken off the ruin, and Mary collected handfuls of these and reassembled them into her own mosaics.  In typical fashion Mary's mosaics concentrated on animals, especially the ones she encountered in her environment there.

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Camel

Finch

Sheep

Toad