This series started with what I have seen.
Where I live we see the glaciers shrinking before our eyes, it is something that is noticeable from year to year with the naked eye.
We all know that this earth is changing, the closer you live in tune with nature the more these changes become apparent.
My Glacier Series is a kind of documentation of this loss, I capture a moment of a glaciers time, by the time I have finished the painting this moment is past.
I am captured also by the immense beauty of the ice, symbolically only the ice in the paintings remains blue. the rocks or the mountains remain monotone. Which lends focus to the ice...
I have so far 10 paintings in this series. You can view them here: GLACIER SERIES
Glacier 10
2024
ink, charcoal, graphite, acrylic on canvas
198 x 138 cm
Glaciers are crucial sources of freshwater worldwide, and as we mourn their loss aesthetically, their loss changes many things, the way we move in the mountains, water security, nature, the future.
Everything on earth is connected.
Smaller Glacier Artworks are now available
As these artworks are large I decided to paint some smaller glacier artworks and they are now available on my website only.
Find them here: AVAILABLE WORKS
Bachfallenferner summer 2024
2024
ink, charcoal, graphite, acrylic on canvas
66 x 52 cm
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Austrian Alpine Club - Glacier Reports 21/22 and 22/23
The 21/22 annual glacier report of the Austrian Alpine Club stated that since 1891,there has ever before in the history of the Alpine Association's glacier measurement service, has there been a greater glacier retreat: on average, the 89 Austrian glaciers observed by the Alpine Association have become 28.7 meters shorter. This enormous increase in the average retreat compared to the previous year (11 meters) means red alert (!): The glacier retreat continues rapidly.'
'[05.04.2024] The volunteer glacier surveyors of the Austrian Alpine Association observed or measured 93 glaciers in Austria for their current glacier report: All but one retreated in the 2022/23 glacier budget year. Compared to last year's report, the former ice giants became an average of 23.9 m shorter from 2022 to 2023. This is not only the third highest value in the 133-year history of the Alpine Association's glacier measurement service, but also in the last seven years.'
Glacier 4
2022
ink, graphite, charcoal, acrylic on canvas
198 x 138 cm
Rettenbach Gletscher
This artwork depicts the state of the glacier in 2022, standing in front of the same glacier in 2023.
This is part of my connection project combined with my glacier series.
My glacier series will continue...
Work in progress - Glacier 4
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