Dawn Clark lives and works between Seattle and the remote Washington coast. Her work explores supernatural forces in the wilderness, mountains, forests, and at the edge of the earth on the Olympic Peninsula.

Drawing on deep immersion in surfing the cold waters of the Pacific Ocean, she creates large-scale paintings on reclaimed industrial raw canvas with pigments stained onto the unprimed surface.

“I often have an atmospheric, energetic feeling or concept at the start of the work. Mixing diluted mineral pigments that reflect the saturated colors of this mood, energy, or light, and working in a series of layers, the painting emerges over days or weeks. The pigments soak into the canvas through natural flow and movement, with energetic tracings made using sitka branches, roots, and other found natural tools.”