Disappearing Glaciers

On a flight from Ireland to Canada, we flew over Greenland, allowing an aerial view of the ice fields. Impressed by the beauty of the patterns and colours beneath us, I researched the area on the internet, only to find that glaciers are melting at an alarming rate. In the past decade, surface melting of glaciers around Greenland due to warm air temperatures has increased in both magnitude and area, while snowfall has increased just slightly. The result is a tripling in the amount of ice mass lost in Greenland between 1996 and 2007. Unless we can alter this rise in temperature, the beauty of these ice fields will be lost and the landscape will change significantly—the world will be changed!  

Using acrylics to create areas of texture and colour, I set up patterns to reflect the melting of the glaciers and the warming of land. There is a terrible beauty at this moment in time.