Original artwork description:

It's been such a strange year of change, isolation and separation, so in the midst of this new, temporary normal, I found myself thinking about the state of the world, the sometimes miraculous healing of wild places as we withdrew and the beauty of nature. I have been inspired by the conservation messaging of 'we care for the things we love' and the people who work tirelessly and passionately work to show us why we should care. The first of my two new collections for 2020, Old Ice is inspired by the beautiful and evocative aerial images of Greenland by the artist and advocate, Roger Fishman. I was moved to make this work when I saw his images and researched the accelerating loss of ice mass due to climate change, which is now exposing ice from the last ice age. The beautiful colours, forms and patterns seem to belie the reality.

I have used forms based on water vessels as a conduit for the imagery, as we often seem to use the earth and her oceans as a commodity...let's change that...

"Every day is a new opportunity to begin again" HH the Dalai Lama & AB Desmond Tutu

#bethechange #climatechange #oldice #lasticeage #ice #oceaninspired #scienceandart

Materials used:

Glass

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