Marilyn Clayton
During her 32-year career as a Registered Nurse, Marilyn used art as a creative outlet and as a healing therapy.
From classes in Polymer clay to jewellery making classes at her second home, Iguana Beads, in Cambridge; where Marilyn met two of her major influences, Deb Benninger of InDividual by Design (A phenomonal creator, and teacher of wire weaving), and Pearl Blay, blogger at the Beading Gem, and fabulous teacher of a variety of metal and beaded media.
From there workshops with the Kims! Kim Krompf of KW Studio the wonderful world of metal smithing; and Kim Kool of The Hive Encaustic studio where she began her exploration of the versatile, and mixed media world of encaustic painting. Both use torches! Insert child-like excitement!
In 2018 she began to show and sell her jewellery at the Fenelon Falls Station Gallery and continues as one of the artist cooperatives’ members at this time.
In 2021 Marilyn retired from nursing and decided it was time to focus on the left side of her brain and move to the north country where she could enjoy her family and artistic pursuits in the fresh air and relative simplicity of a tiny town on the southern tip of Algonquin Park
This seemed a fitting time to launch her jewellery and encaustic/mixed media art with a rebranding and so 8th MOC Designs was born. 8th because of her position in her large family of 10 children and MOC of course, for her initials.
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