Arctic Wonders
Through painting, video and photography, Canadian artist David McEown continues his long term project to document the Arctic, sharing through presentations and art shows the beauty of these remote but fragile places that are showing significant effects of climate change. For the past 15 years David has travelled by icebreaker, sailboat, and hiking boots to circumnavigate the arctic circle and has even skied to and painted the North Pole. He paints on location in watercolour (watercolor) often in extreme arctic conditions improvising techniques forletting the watercolours freeze for chance effect andfrosted patterns that echo the landscape and the churning icepack.
Arctic Watercolours by David McEown
Polar Bear n.6, 22 x30 inches watercolour
Painting locations in the arctic by David McEown
Through painting, video and photography, Canadian artist David McEown continues his long term project to document the Arctic and Antarctica by sharing through presentations and exhibitions the beauty of these remote but fragile places that are showing significant effects of climate change.
For the past 15 years David has travelled by icebreaker, sailboat, and hiking boots to circumnavigate the arctic circle and has even skied to and painted the North Pole. He paints on location in watercolour in often in extreme arctic conditions improvising techniques for letting the watercolours freeze for chance effect and frosted patterns that echo the landscape and the churning icepack.
A selection of paintings can be viewed in the following galleries.
GREENLAND
Greenland Ice n.1, 22in. x30in. watercolor
Hornsund, Burger Bay, 8.5in. x22in. watercolor
Yttygran Island, 10in. x 22in. watercolor
Northwest Passage, 12in. x22in. watercolour
Arctic Dream, 22in. x22in. watercolor
Pressure Ridges n.4, 7.in x 11in. watercolour