dl clay

dl clay creates in her Otter Point home where she lives with her husband and rescue dog,Sass. She is lead instigator and developer of Sooke Writers' Collective and a long time volunteer and past board member with the Sooke Arts Council helping them to set up their first gallery in 2020. Her writing informs her art making and her mixed media work informs her poetry.

I am a curious poet and artist working in a variety of mediums. My art making/writing is focused on witnessing and exploring the landscapes around me, inside and out. I use layering and abstraction with mixed media and in poetry to explore concepts of what it is to remember, observe and process.
While the physical landscape remains a large influence, my personal landscape, involving my mother's disappearance into dementia, has had a profound effect on my thoughts about memory.