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Detail photograph in natural sunlight, at sunset. This drawing appears in “Flow”, at Modern Art Oxford (Sept-Oct 2020). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ddd4bd6a8819f027c643165/1589038447723-GOBEVB3AV1JC8KOZI670/image-asset.jpeg Amlwch railway project gallery - "A Crack In The Record" (detail) Copper ink on paper (H900mm x W 1100mm). Detail photograph in natural sunlight, at sunset. This drawing appears in “Flow”, at Modern Art Oxford (Sept-Oct 2020). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ddd4bd6a8819f027c643165/1670357666853-WW54AYF63KIRFA192F78/image-asset.png Amlwch railway project gallery - "Losing Track" Pen on tracing paper H60cm x W84.5cm x D1.5cm. Imagining all the permutations of possible journeys along the Amlwch branch line, until the memory of each individual memory becomes lost in the totality of all journeys. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ddd4bd6a8819f027c643165/1684073063436-MA0NY0YBFPQ4F8PVCG6F/image-asset.jpeg Amlwch railway project gallery - "Amfortas" (2022) Red thread partially bound around a fragment of railway sleeper. L68cm x W4cm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ddd4bd6a8819f027c643165/1578597617085-MVKNQGR3D9CQL1JKK1N4/Record+of+Damage+-+MRC+-+Jan+2020.jpg Amlwch railway project gallery - "Record of Damage” Graphite on paper. Recording rot damage in a section of railway sleeper. Looking to record what has been lost, not what remains. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ddd4bd6a8819f027c643165/1601384967139-PTMCN4PJ6I72USJRU3AR/Timelines+-+Mark+Clay+-+October2019.jpg Amlwch railway project gallery - "Timelines" Graphite and stylus on tracing paper. (H 59.4cm x W 89.1cm) 156 lines, derived from the route of the Amlwch line, one for each year of the line’s life; in fading grades of pencil, down to stylus marks. Shortlisted for the 2020 Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ddd4bd6a8819f027c643165/1706267308338-BP4FLDWVXSJ5CH6PR3VR/image-asset.jpeg Amlwch railway project gallery - A Fragile Structure (Anglesey Branchlines) (2023) Nailpoint “gravure” and graphite. A network of imagined journeys on both of Anglesey’s former branch lines forms an cumulative, organic structure of “remembered” experience. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ddd4bd6a8819f027c643165/1589038972080-U5SQTU8VEMWIEZJSTGM3/IMG_20200218_125511645_HDR.jpg Amlwch railway project gallery - "Rhoddion" ("Gifts") Track ballast stones gilded with copper leaf, for returning and replacing on the Amlwch railway line. Site-specific work in progress (interrupted by the coronavirus lockdown). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ddd4bd6a8819f027c643165/1578597615581-5176C0QYWH38VKOZW29F/DreaMFActory2019+-+Cabinet+-+MRC+-+2020.jpg Amlwch railway project gallery - “Cabinet of Treasures” As seen at DreaMFActory2019. (Dec 2019) Railway sleeper cross-sections. Unknown object (rusted). Track bolt. Track key. Weed/soil plug removed from railway sleeper bolt hole. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ddd4bd6a8819f027c643165/1586102281975-0MLTKEJSQFH02OLF0DR4/image-asset.jpeg Amlwch railway project gallery - 'Soundtrack' Recording memories of trains and silence. Copper thread on paper. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ddd4bd6a8819f027c643165/1601384209593-FWX3AWUNQVB10X2LTRQ6/IMG_20200907_101858079.jpg Amlwch railway project gallery - "Much is forgotten. (But not all)." Plaster and copper leaf gilding. Approx. 80cm x 80cm. 25 Plaster casts of railway track ballast stones from the Amwlch line, one gilded with copper leaf. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ddd4bd6a8819f027c643165/1594566786545-4T3G80HHI30EO26VYMY7/IMG_20200712_113418068.jpg Amlwch railway project gallery - "Incantations" (July 2020 Typing on copper leaf on tracing paper, mounted and backlit. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ddd4bd6a8819f027c643165/1601385676458-YCQ7N3YED63JXQN1X39S/IMG_20200907_123248902.jpg Amlwch railway project gallery - "Ebychnod (Exclamation)". Rusted (found) railway track components arranged to resemble an exclamation mark. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ddd4bd6a8819f027c643165/1578597622700-TRF0V2ZZ80H84O49VUM3/Sleeper+Blockprint+-+MRC+-+Jan2020.jpg Amlwch railway project gallery - "Sleeper Fragment" Woodblock print on paper, made using a fragment of rotten railway sleeper. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ddd4bd6a8819f027c643165/1601385487997-QBGE2K4BJELU1IFDE388/IMG_20200617_214759236.jpg Amlwch railway project gallery - Maquettes for "Monuments in Ogham" Paper maquette (H 42cm x W 29.7 cm) for a large installation of 7 large hanging folded paper sheets to be arranged in a circle. Each piece to be cut into with the names of the Amwch line railway stations transliterated into the Ogham alphabet. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ddd4bd6a8819f027c643165/1591008839180-OYEY0EPNAK3JILXVU484/IMG_20200515_171232058-01.jpg Amlwch railway project gallery - “The Fallibility of Human Memory”. Ink and copper thread on paper. H400mm X W800mm . https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ddd4bd6a8819f027c643165/1594566682198-AKEHUW5F8RR42Q8DUAG7/IMG_20200710_174905953.jpg Amlwch railway project gallery - "Uncertain Journey" (July 2020) Ink on tracing paper. https://www.markrclay.co.uk/portfolio daily 0.75 2024-01-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ddd4bd6a8819f027c643165/1648298079861-TAGKYUZJUCYZ8C8A1ICU/image-asset.jpeg Portfolio - "How Surely Gravity's Law" (2021) Graphite on paper. H107cm x W150cm A commemoration of the ash trees of Hinksey Heights Nature Trail, where a substantial portion of the tree canopy has been lost to storm damage and ash dieback disease during 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ddd4bd6a8819f027c643165/1648298079861-TAGKYUZJUCYZ8C8A1ICU/image-asset.jpeg Portfolio - "How Surely Gravity's Law" (2021) Graphite on paper. 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H32cm x W32cm (framed) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ddd4bd6a8819f027c643165/1579254142351-NMPN83AHF9BY7ZLI9KJ8/Calmac+at+Brodick+-+MRC+-+Jan2020.jpg Portfolio - “Calmac at Brodick Pier, Arran” (2019) Pen and ink drawing https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ddd4bd6a8819f027c643165/1648298746079-T57RI2S7AR99M2V4JUWZ/IMG_20210922_202243073.jpg Portfolio - "Seven Days in Laide" (2022) Graphite and stones gathered from beaches in NW Scotland, on paper. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ddd4bd6a8819f027c643165/1706269851334-50MR13893XO3A9YPIDH4/image-asset.jpeg Portfolio - "A Crack In The Record" (2020) Copper ink on paper, Shown as installed for “Flow” at Modern Art Oxford (2020) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ddd4bd6a8819f027c643165/1582470004333-7UQZL3W0T7TAT0OLE38C/IMG_20200205_083445_821+%281%29.jpg Portfolio - Leaving Capel Curig (2020) Pencil drawing of the Afon Llugwy through Capel Curig (Snowdonia) in spate after Storm Brendan (January 2020). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ddd4bd6a8819f027c643165/1579254185297-80PWJ89G0U0IMBZRG22K/IMG_2615.JPG Portfolio - "Untitled" (2016) Scratched black acrylic paint on acetate, illuminated. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ddd4bd6a8819f027c643165/1579254135148-6TE5QN8HEEZZ6AAX2FPE/20170125_203756.jpg Portfolio - "Untitled bookart" (2017) Paper, acetate sheet, upturned desk lamp. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ddd4bd6a8819f027c643165/1579254196075-T96OYPEGDL5O4DK67O2V/Wytham+Woods+in+Winter+-+Mark+Clay.JPG Portfolio - "Wytham Woods in Winter” (2018) Ink and inkwash. https://www.markrclay.co.uk/commissions daily 0.75 2026-02-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ddd4bd6a8819f027c643165/1648298564533-0TLR4E6FIMDEP1BKW1BB/Moonrise+-+Mark+Clay-++March2022.jpg Commissions - "Moonrise" (2022) Graphite and pastel on paper. H42cm x W59.4cm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ddd4bd6a8819f027c643165/1648298564533-0TLR4E6FIMDEP1BKW1BB/Moonrise+-+Mark+Clay-++March2022.jpg Commissions - "Moonrise" (2022) Graphite and pastel on paper. H42cm x W59.4cm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ddd4bd6a8819f027c643165/1706270247080-35UM8B1BCTPLBPZ99GJL/image-asset.jpeg Commissions - "Global Exchange (Cover image) A commission of 13 pen and ink illustrations for “Global Exchange: Dialogues to Advance Education”, by Sue Cunningham, published in 2023 by the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ddd4bd6a8819f027c643165/1579253659952-CKUEL60GIBFKHXR01QVD/IMG-20200101-WA0001.jpg Commissions - “Dartmouth Sunset” Mixed media relief collage. Pen and ink, acrylic paint. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ddd4bd6a8819f027c643165/1650831036333-NOTMJUD5FUFAJKECVXO0/Hinksey+Trail+Map.jpg Commissions - Hinksey Heights Trail Map (2022) Pen and watercolour pencil on paper. H74cm x W58cm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ddd4bd6a8819f027c643165/1579253638034-S1T9N0RPH2NI7IE6H7V5/IMG_20190913_175815_592.jpg Commissions - “A Sydney House” Pen and ink, acrylic paint, collage. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ddd4bd6a8819f027c643165/1579253618697-EU72DVWBF7BN3H22TSY5/20171112_160434.jpg Commissions - “Begin Your Day, Winnie” Graphite and pen and ink drawing Combining Samuel Beckett and Winnie The Pooh. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ddd4bd6a8819f027c643165/1587636490387-9IHBL4HDEUBWQNOA95YO/AllSouls-Closeup-MRC.jpg Commissions - All Soul's College (2020) From a series of pen and ink drawings/collages commissioned by The Story Museum, Oxford. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ddd4bd6a8819f027c643165/1579253647922-RL5H7FHUR8ELPF86XGVH/IMG_20190926_083448_420.jpg Commissions - “Almost Oxford” Pencil and pen and ink illustrated drawing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ddd4bd6a8819f027c643165/1771521686209-JE5WG63LBZWUYOE9V42F/image-asset.jpeg Commissions “Becoming Oxford”, a joint commission for myself and Anne Griffiths from Councillor Louise Upton, Lady Mayor of Oxford, as a gift to present to the Mayor of Bonn, one of Oxford’ twin cities. https://www.markrclay.co.uk/landing-page daily 1.0 2024-01-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ddd4bd6a8819f027c643165/1706266554863-MKDOAY00XQ2UPSS8LWHU/Mark+Clay+-+Testament+-+Sept2022.jpg Mark Clay fine artist - Welcome Page https://www.markrclay.co.uk/contact daily 0.75 2020-01-30 https://www.markrclay.co.uk/about daily 0.75 2026-02-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ddd4bd6a8819f027c643165/1602003623314-WHUOVGSDKX67KH1YAR6X/IMG-20200505-WA0021.jpg About https://www.markrclay.co.uk/mark-clay-artist-commissions daily 0.75 2020-01-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ddd4bd6a8819f027c643165/1648298564533-0TLR4E6FIMDEP1BKW1BB/Moonrise+-+Mark+Clay-++March2022.jpg Commissions - "Moonrise" (2022) Graphite and pastel on paper. H42cm x W59.4cm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ddd4bd6a8819f027c643165/1706270247080-35UM8B1BCTPLBPZ99GJL/image-asset.jpeg Commissions - "Global Exchange (Cover image) A commission of 13 pen and ink illustrations for “Global Exchange: Dialogues to Advance Education”, by Sue Cunningham, published in 2023 by the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ddd4bd6a8819f027c643165/1579253659952-CKUEL60GIBFKHXR01QVD/IMG-20200101-WA0001.jpg Commissions - “Dartmouth Sunset” Mixed media relief collage. Pen and ink, acrylic paint. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ddd4bd6a8819f027c643165/1650831036333-NOTMJUD5FUFAJKECVXO0/Hinksey+Trail+Map.jpg Commissions - Hinksey Heights Trail Map (2022) Pen and watercolour pencil on paper. H74cm x W58cm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ddd4bd6a8819f027c643165/1579253638034-S1T9N0RPH2NI7IE6H7V5/IMG_20190913_175815_592.jpg Commissions - “A Sydney House” Pen and ink, acrylic paint, collage. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ddd4bd6a8819f027c643165/1579253618697-EU72DVWBF7BN3H22TSY5/20171112_160434.jpg Commissions - “Begin Your Day, Winnie” Graphite and pen and ink drawing Combining Samuel Beckett and Winnie The Pooh. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ddd4bd6a8819f027c643165/1587636490387-9IHBL4HDEUBWQNOA95YO/AllSouls-Closeup-MRC.jpg Commissions - All Soul's College (2020) From a series of pen and ink drawings/collages commissioned by The Story Museum, Oxford. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ddd4bd6a8819f027c643165/1579253647922-RL5H7FHUR8ELPF86XGVH/IMG_20190926_083448_420.jpg Commissions - “Almost Oxford” Pencil and pen and ink illustrated drawing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ddd4bd6a8819f027c643165/1771521686209-JE5WG63LBZWUYOE9V42F/image-asset.jpeg Commissions “Becoming Oxford”, a joint commission for myself and Anne Griffiths from Councillor Louise Upton, Lady Mayor of Oxford, as a gift to present to the Mayor of Bonn, one of Oxford’ twin cities. https://www.markrclay.co.uk/gallery-3 daily 0.75 2023-05-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ddd4bd6a8819f027c643165/1589038447723-GOBEVB3AV1JC8KOZI670/image-asset.jpeg Amlwch railway project - "A Crack In The Record" (detail) Copper ink on paper (H900mm x W 1100mm). Detail photograph in natural sunlight, at sunset. This drawing appears in “Flow”, at Modern Art Oxford (Sept-Oct 2020). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ddd4bd6a8819f027c643165/1670357666853-WW54AYF63KIRFA192F78/image-asset.png Amlwch railway project - "Losing Track" Pen on tracing paper H60cm x W84.5cm x D1.5cm. Imagining all the permutations of possible journeys along the Amlwch branch line, until the memory of each individual memory becomes lost in the totality of all journeys. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ddd4bd6a8819f027c643165/1684073063436-MA0NY0YBFPQ4F8PVCG6F/image-asset.jpeg Amlwch railway project - "Amfortas" (2022) Red thread partially bound around a fragment of railway sleeper. L68cm x W4cm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ddd4bd6a8819f027c643165/1578597617085-MVKNQGR3D9CQL1JKK1N4/Record+of+Damage+-+MRC+-+Jan+2020.jpg Amlwch railway project - "Record of Damage” Graphite on paper. Recording rot damage in a section of railway sleeper. Looking to record what has been lost, not what remains. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ddd4bd6a8819f027c643165/1601384967139-PTMCN4PJ6I72USJRU3AR/Timelines+-+Mark+Clay+-+October2019.jpg Amlwch railway project - "Timelines" Graphite and stylus on tracing paper. (H 59.4cm x W 89.1cm) 156 lines, derived from the route of the Amlwch line, one for each year of the line’s life; in fading grades of pencil, down to stylus marks. Shortlisted for the 2020 Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ddd4bd6a8819f027c643165/1706267308338-BP4FLDWVXSJ5CH6PR3VR/image-asset.jpeg Amlwch railway project - A Fragile Structure (Anglesey Branchlines) (2023) Nailpoint “gravure” and graphite. A network of imagined journeys on both of Anglesey’s former branch lines forms an cumulative, organic structure of “remembered” experience. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ddd4bd6a8819f027c643165/1589038972080-U5SQTU8VEMWIEZJSTGM3/IMG_20200218_125511645_HDR.jpg Amlwch railway project - "Rhoddion" ("Gifts") Track ballast stones gilded with copper leaf, for returning and replacing on the Amlwch railway line. Site-specific work in progress (interrupted by the coronavirus lockdown). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ddd4bd6a8819f027c643165/1578597615581-5176C0QYWH38VKOZW29F/DreaMFActory2019+-+Cabinet+-+MRC+-+2020.jpg Amlwch railway project - “Cabinet of Treasures” As seen at DreaMFActory2019. (Dec 2019) Railway sleeper cross-sections. Unknown object (rusted). Track bolt. Track key. Weed/soil plug removed from railway sleeper bolt hole. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ddd4bd6a8819f027c643165/1586102281975-0MLTKEJSQFH02OLF0DR4/image-asset.jpeg Amlwch railway project - 'Soundtrack' Recording memories of trains and silence. Copper thread on paper. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ddd4bd6a8819f027c643165/1601384209593-FWX3AWUNQVB10X2LTRQ6/IMG_20200907_101858079.jpg Amlwch railway project - "Much is forgotten. (But not all)." Plaster and copper leaf gilding. Approx. 80cm x 80cm. 25 Plaster casts of railway track ballast stones from the Amwlch line, one gilded with copper leaf. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ddd4bd6a8819f027c643165/1594566786545-4T3G80HHI30EO26VYMY7/IMG_20200712_113418068.jpg Amlwch railway project - "Incantations" (July 2020 Typing on copper leaf on tracing paper, mounted and backlit. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ddd4bd6a8819f027c643165/1601385676458-YCQ7N3YED63JXQN1X39S/IMG_20200907_123248902.jpg Amlwch railway project - "Ebychnod (Exclamation)". Rusted (found) railway track components arranged to resemble an exclamation mark. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ddd4bd6a8819f027c643165/1578597622700-TRF0V2ZZ80H84O49VUM3/Sleeper+Blockprint+-+MRC+-+Jan2020.jpg Amlwch railway project - "Sleeper Fragment" Woodblock print on paper, made using a fragment of rotten railway sleeper. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ddd4bd6a8819f027c643165/1601385487997-QBGE2K4BJELU1IFDE388/IMG_20200617_214759236.jpg Amlwch railway project - Maquettes for "Monuments in Ogham" Paper maquette (H 42cm x W 29.7 cm) for a large installation of 7 large hanging folded paper sheets to be arranged in a circle. Each piece to be cut into with the names of the Amwch line railway stations transliterated into the Ogham alphabet. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ddd4bd6a8819f027c643165/1591008839180-OYEY0EPNAK3JILXVU484/IMG_20200515_171232058-01.jpg Amlwch railway project - “The Fallibility of Human Memory”. Ink and copper thread on paper. H400mm X W800mm . https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ddd4bd6a8819f027c643165/1594566682198-AKEHUW5F8RR42Q8DUAG7/IMG_20200710_174905953.jpg Amlwch railway project - "Uncertain Journey" (July 2020) Ink on tracing paper. https://www.markrclay.co.uk/mark-clay-artist-portfolio daily 0.75 2020-01-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ddd4bd6a8819f027c643165/1648298079861-TAGKYUZJUCYZ8C8A1ICU/image-asset.jpeg Portfolio - "How Surely Gravity's Law" (2021) Graphite on paper. H107cm x W150cm A commemoration of the ash trees of Hinksey Heights Nature Trail, where a substantial portion of the tree canopy has been lost to storm damage and ash dieback disease during 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ddd4bd6a8819f027c643165/1706268777235-2ZK08HMEO0DPG9TKXSH6/image-asset.png Portfolio - "Spirit of Renewal" (2024) Embroidery thread bound/darned around a wire mesh offcut from the renovation of the Hinksey Heights Nature Trail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ddd4bd6a8819f027c643165/1706269570456-RMMWRSB15N62XU6X5FKP/image-asset.jpeg Portfolio - "Stomorska Nocturne" (2023) Graphite on paper. H32cm x W32cm (framed) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ddd4bd6a8819f027c643165/1579254142351-NMPN83AHF9BY7ZLI9KJ8/Calmac+at+Brodick+-+MRC+-+Jan2020.jpg Portfolio - “Calmac at Brodick Pier, Arran” (2019) Pen and ink drawing https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ddd4bd6a8819f027c643165/1648298746079-T57RI2S7AR99M2V4JUWZ/IMG_20210922_202243073.jpg Portfolio - "Seven Days in Laide" (2022) Graphite and stones gathered from beaches in NW Scotland, on paper. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ddd4bd6a8819f027c643165/1706269851334-50MR13893XO3A9YPIDH4/image-asset.jpeg Portfolio - "A Crack In The Record" (2020) Copper ink on paper, Shown as installed for “Flow” at Modern Art Oxford (2020) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ddd4bd6a8819f027c643165/1582470004333-7UQZL3W0T7TAT0OLE38C/IMG_20200205_083445_821+%281%29.jpg Portfolio - Leaving Capel Curig (2020) Pencil drawing of the Afon Llugwy through Capel Curig (Snowdonia) in spate after Storm Brendan (January 2020). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ddd4bd6a8819f027c643165/1579254185297-80PWJ89G0U0IMBZRG22K/IMG_2615.JPG Portfolio - "Untitled" (2016) Scratched black acrylic paint on acetate, illuminated. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ddd4bd6a8819f027c643165/1579254135148-6TE5QN8HEEZZ6AAX2FPE/20170125_203756.jpg Portfolio - "Untitled bookart" (2017) Paper, acetate sheet, upturned desk lamp. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ddd4bd6a8819f027c643165/1579254196075-T96OYPEGDL5O4DK67O2V/Wytham+Woods+in+Winter+-+Mark+Clay.JPG Portfolio - "Wytham Woods in Winter” (2018) Ink and inkwash. https://www.markrclay.co.uk/links daily 0.75 2022-01-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ddd4bd6a8819f027c643165/1612976973496-VTYMM7U0JBUAMVAGMCWV/104433339_605128213457969_9158391106413013316_o.jpg Links “Acts of Preservation” (2020) Copyright Mark Clay 2020. https://www.markrclay.co.uk/hinksey-heights-trail daily 0.75 2025-04-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ddd4bd6a8819f027c643165/1650829963816-XR44O4YCLBSNCDWNHUA6/MarkClay-HowSurelyGravitysLaw-2021smaller.jpg Hinksey Heights Trail - "How Surely Gravity's Law" (2021) Paper on graphite, H107cm X W150cm Title after the eponymous poem by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926) H107cm x W150cm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ddd4bd6a8819f027c643165/1706268320135-26WXJASIWY236L9NCUBT/IMG_7054.PNG Hinksey Heights Trail - "Spirit of Renewal" (2024) Embroidery thread bound/darned around an offcut of wire mesh from the renovation of the boardwalks on Hinksey Heights Nature Trail H26cm x W23cm x D26cm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ddd4bd6a8819f027c643165/1706267780028-6QUVP4LGBXOTC7ENZOSI/IMG_20240107_112303129_HDR_20240107151622075.jpg Hinksey Heights Trail - "Novissima Hora Est" (2024) Photo documentation series of diseased ash trees, bandaged as acts of care and farewell, one day before they were cut down. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ddd4bd6a8819f027c643165/1743760273689-EXVS2C1ZBVHGB7I5K1TO/A%2BNever%2BEnding%2BWay%2BVol%2B1%2B-%2BMark%2BClay%2B-%2BMar2025.jpg Hinksey Heights Trail - A Never Ending Way Vol. 1 Ink on Paper, concertina sketchbook, 16 feet long. Volume 1 of a year-long project to create a drawn walk on the Hinksey Heights Nature Trail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ddd4bd6a8819f027c643165/1706267868851-I03NBEDMXI93R3968WI6/IMG_6995+1.JPG Hinksey Heights Trail - "Peace Comes Dropping Slow" (2023) Pencil on Paper H100 cm x W80 cm (framed) Winner, Guest Speaker’s Prize, Oxford Art Society Member’s Exhibition, 2024 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ddd4bd6a8819f027c643165/1650829997641-EJENI5UPGVYNYSV0M3AX/1650804225305.jpg Hinksey Heights Trail - "The Knowledge In The Grain" (2022) Pencil and copper gilding on paper. H42cm x W29/7cm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ddd4bd6a8819f027c643165/1684072299306-T0IDSYNCE146NONCYL81/Mark+Clay+-+On+An+Overgrown+Path+-+2023.jpg Hinksey Heights Trail - "On An Overgrown Path" (2023) Embroidery thread bound on wire mesh recovered during the renovation of the HinkseyHeights Nature Trail. H17cm x W100cm x D38 cm (approx.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ddd4bd6a8819f027c643165/1684072276061-SVERMZI92YOXGYKP4IDH/Mark+Clay+-+Testament+-+Sept2022.jpg Hinksey Heights Trail - "Testament" (2023) Nail, screw and bolt imprints hammered into paper H102cm x D c.20cm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ddd4bd6a8819f027c643165/1650829999640-ARNFMDHSYCUOLTG7PWPI/Before+The+Fall+-+Mark+Clay+-+2022+-+smaller.jpg Hinksey Heights Trail - "Before The Fall" (2022) Pencil on graphite. H58cm x W74cm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ddd4bd6a8819f027c643165/1684072088499-TQ2IDR8SI0GQ0HZQ3W8N/Mark+Clay+-+Regarding+The+Work+Of+Others+-+Sept2022.jpg Hinksey Heights Trail - "Regarding The Work Of Others" (2022) Ink on paper. H29.7 cm x W42cm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ddd4bd6a8819f027c643165/1684072284639-2OGSUQXUYXRS96G3ZDQI/Mark+Clay+-+Learning+The+Way+-+2023.jpg Hinksey Heights Trail - "Learning The Way" (2022) Thread bound around wire mesh recovered during the renovation of Hinksey Heights Nature Trail. W71cm x H11.5cm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ddd4bd6a8819f027c643165/1650829984222-K62HCSW883PPX0P44ER1/Willow+Song+I+%231MarkClayDec2021.jpg Hinksey Heights Trail - "Willow Song I" (2021) Fallen willow bough bound in plaster bandage. https://www.markrclay.co.uk/store daily 0.75 2024-08-10