HOMEChoose a category to view some of Mary McClelland's paintings
 Animals |
 Insects |
 Bones |
 Mosaics |
 People |
 Spiritual Paintings |
Alphabetical list of painting images |
| Underwater Creatures (20" x 16", razor-scraped oil on paper) - One summer at Yelping Hill in the early 1960s Mary and her son Jabez collected underwater creatures from a stagnant pond called the Tarn. They kept the creatures, which ranged from microscopic daphne, or water-fleas, to newts, crayfish, and fierce water bugs, in tanks where they could watch them. Mary found the creatures fascinating, and sketched and painted them all. In this painting she let her imagination go and combined fantastical microscopic organisms with turtles, spiders, and lake weed. |
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