Today I drove 400 km around the Kamloops area visiting places like the Kamloop’s Viewpoint, Savona, Hat Creek, and Spences Bridge with Kelly, a local artist who shares my passion for finding and using local materials in her art. In each place we stopped we found soils and rocks that will make interesting colours … We found a rich sienna colour at the Viewpoint and flakes of something florescent in Savona (which was more exciting until we realized that it was chips for road paint!). In Hat Creek, a local farmer told me a tale of some dark red soil up the mountain that he could only break up with his tractor (I was unable to convince him to take us there though …). Continue reading…