Orogeny Painting

This painting is heavily textured in hand formed ceramic bead forms. It was created just before the volcanic eruptions in Iceland that stopped air traffic in Europe occurred. I was working in Iceland 2009-2011 on a self directed project called Orogeny and associated art residencies. I was working with Icelandic volcanologists and British psychologists looking at the relationship between earth, body and psyche. The volcano that then erupted was the volcano that happens to be the life's study of the same volcanologist I was working closely with. She (the volcano) was so unlikely to erupt that the volcanologist had removed the technology around her only the week before because the equipment was needed else where in Iceland on other volcanoes much more likely to erupt. She was said not to erupt in hundreds of years .I painted this before there were signs of any eruption. She burst through meters of ice as she lies beneath a glacier. I was looking at this activity as a metaphor for the unpredictability of human life. It is 300 cm wide made up of 3 panels each 100 cm wide.

Multi-paneled Painting:Oil on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:118.1 W x 59.1 H x 2.4 D in

Number of Panels:3

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