claybords™ and scratchboards

Evening Cedar Claybord - Wyoming landscape claybord

Dawn Senior-Trask, of Moonhorse Art Studio, has worked in a wide variety of media including charcoal, oil paintings, woodcuts, gouaches, claybords and scratchboards. Her artwork, especially her claybords and scratchboards, are a unique way of looking at the memories and culture of the West -- memories and reflections of the lifestyles this western artist has experienced during the many years she has lived in a log cabin near Saratoga, Wyoming.

Evening Cedar Claybord - Dawn's landscape claybord was inspired by the floral and fauna of the Wyoming landscape.

Size: 5"x7"
Reproduction: (unframed)
Price: $25
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More information about this Wyoming landscape claybord below.

One morning when Dawn was nine years old, she looked out the cabin window at sunrise.  A movement among the boulders a cedars across the draw caught her eye.  A mountain lion!  Excited, she called to her mother and father to come see.  The lion moved stealthily, the tip of its long tail swishing back and forth as it stalked along the draw's rim, looking down into its depths as if looking for some unwary deer to pounce on.  Finally, the lion disappeared behind some boulders and didn't show itself again.

Dawn felt too excited to go to school that day, but her parents insisted, and she ran down the two-track just in time to catch the bus a half-mile away on the gravel county road.  The next day, however, being a Saturday, she lost no time in making her way to the draw.  Down along the stream bank, squished deep into the mud, she found the large, round tracks of the mountain lion.  She followed them.  Her father had said the day before that mountain lions are shy, and avoid people.  (At that time, no reliable accounts of mountain lion attacks existed.)  So, Dawn wasn't afraid as she followed the lion's tracks downstream.  But she had a strange, powerful feeling that, because she didn't know where the lion was, it was everywhere -- behind every tree, atop every boulder, in every little cave among the cliffs, in the very air that she breathed.  Above the roar and rush of the snowmelt-flooded creek, she heard a voice calling her.  Mother had come to fetch her home.

Even now, Dawn feels the presence of the mountain lion of her childhood, as if in the draw that day she had breathed some of its spirit into her own pores and dreams.  It frequently reappears in her art and writings.

If you would like more information on our artwork or would like to place an order, email Moonhorse Art Studio or call us 307.327.5381. We look forward to hearing from you!