Feeling the Tears from your Sweet Memories

Mara Clawson

Mara Clawson is a self-taught artist who began painting visual stories using soft pastels, oil pastels, and an iPad while attending special education schools and camps in Maryland. She joined VisAbility Art Lab to focus on ceramics. Her raw, untainted works reveal her authentic self. 
“Art is my life. I make art from my imagination of how I see the world. I work until ‘the colors get along.’ Art makes me happy and gives me lots of courage. My body cannot make tears, so my art tells how I feel. I enjoy how I feel making art. It becomes a part of me.”