Original artwork description:

This is a painting that was produced through the process of collecting various pigments from Somerset landscape, including Taunton Deane, Quantocks, Watchet and Blue Anchor, near Minehead. These were ground into powder and pieces, suspended on top of snow collected from the Anticyclone Hartmut (Beast from the East) that had fallen in March 2018. All this was placed into a large tray to form the painting through intervention and nature/ natural elements, to see what would happen and how an image might come about through an artist intervention.

The snow melted depositing the pigments onto the paper that was underneath, then allowed to dry and sealed to preserve the results. The piece was produced to highlight the movement ofpigments from one place to another and depositied onto a surface through by melting snow, highlighting both the past ice age climate change, and the current climate changes we were experiencing during 2018 and onwards.

Materials used:

Rock pigments, soil pigments, snowmelt water, fixative

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