Although she has recently been focusing more on writing, Samantha Clark has gradually built up a varied body of work, with 'Weeping Sap' sitting right at the beginning of it. Installed in 1999 over on the Coniston side of the forest during a period of upheaval at Grizedale, it was a small, understated yet attractive piece of work, but you had to know what you were looking for, or you could have walked right past it. It involved 'sap' which appeared to be leaking from the trees, but on closer inspection actually had little photographs inside it, such as a picture of a cow standing in a field. It's a tricky one to explain, but luckily I don't need to as there is a picture right there, courtesy of the Grizedale Archive. The work was taken off the guide maps around five years later; I'm not sure if any trace remains, as I haven't been out that way since 1999, when I walked there specifically to see this.

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Only a handful of sculptures have been placed out here on the far western side of the forest down the years. There's plenty to attract the walker to these slopes beyond art, however. The views of Coniston Water and its accompanying mountains for a start, are exemplary. More locally though, there is a short but steep walk through the wood at Machell's Coppice too. The area hereabouts was the inspiration for Arthur Ransome's 'Swallows and Amazons', and on this trail you can see the building which became the 'Dogs Home', a location in the book.