Tag Archives: climate change

02/19/12

Oil and Dolphins


This is called No Way Out… for Dolphins and other Living Things. (Sorry about the low image quality as I took this with my phone, despite the fact that I own some great cameras.). This painting is small, 10″ x 10″, and part of my Endangered series. Next up: Canadian Lynx, Orangutans, and Grey Wolves. This series does not limit itself to officially endangered animals either, as the dolphin is not currently endangered. I’m also working on endangered man and woman paintings because even though there are a lot of us (7 billion, in fact) we may be endangered at some not too distant future time, too.

11/20/11

Erosion for Planet Earth

This is my painting  Erosion that I did both for my environmental series, and for the St. Cloud Paramount ‘s “Planet Earth” juried art show. This painting was picked for this show by a juror who is a potter, or ceramic artist, and I’m not sure what to think of that. I know at least one other artist who believes that 3D artists should not be judging 2D work. As a 2D artist, I know I could not honestly juror 3D art and feel fully qualified, because it would not be the type of art of my choice. But I can’t complain about this particular juror because he liked my painting.

This is a 24″ x 26″ painting done in acrylic on canvas.

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11/10/11

Climate Change Art

These are photos of some recent work related to my environmental series.  The first, above, is called Hotter Than Usual.  It’s a small painting, 16″ x 12″, showing people living in a warming world, (due to climate change) and it’s for my new series Imbalance.  Imbalance has been renamed from its previous name, Rebalance, due to a recent report from the IEA.  It seems obvious now that the world truly is out of balance, and our window to do anything about climate change is shrinking fast.  In fact, the report states that if carbon emissions are not drastically reduced in a few years, it will be too late to stop devastating climate change.  Worst-case climate change would be a tragedy not just for people but for animals and plants, and there will be mass migrations of people due to droughts in some areas and flooding in others.

Below is the recently completely painting Exodus, which depicts people on the move due to violent weather and the resulting unbearable living conditions — the blue suggests the conditions are flooding.  (I did another painting last year called Waterworld which depicts people in a flooding situation.)

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