When Glaciers Melt
Original Artwork
Price: £1,700
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Dimensions: 91 cm x 61 cm x 1.4cm
Certificate of Authenticity included
When Glaciers Melt is a reflection on the growing environmental crisis of global warming and the vulnerability of the world's frozen landscapes. The painting presents an imagined glacial terrain in a state of change, where ice, water and rock appear to merge and flow into one another.
Sweeping blues, whites and blacks create a cold, shifting landscape, while cascading forms and elongated drips suggest ice gradually surrendering to water. Small areas of warmer colour emerge unexpectedly through the predominantly icy palette, hinting at the changing temperatures disrupting this fragile environment.
Painted before I developed my more textured mixed-media surrealist style, the work shows an earlier exploration of abstraction and distorted landscape, using movement and fluid forms to consider the dilemma of a warming world.
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My Process
When Glaciers Melt was painted in acrylic on canvas using multiple layers of paint rather than added textural mediums. I built the landscape gradually, layering different tones of blue, white, grey and black to create depth and the impression of ice, rock and moving water.
The paint was manipulated into sweeping, flowing shapes, with areas allowed to stretch, drip and merge across the composition. Strong white lines and highlights were added over darker layers to define the edges of the glacial forms and create the appearance of melting ice and cascading water.
Unlike my later mixed-media paintings, the surface remains relatively smooth. The sense of texture is created entirely through layering, tonal contrast, brushwork and the movement of the acrylic paint itself.
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