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The Swimmer 4 - Floating

The Swimmer 4 - Floating

W 77.20cm x H 77.20cm x D 4.80cm

USD $350.00

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  • About this The Swimmer 4 - Floating

    Detail

    Medium

    Painting (Oil painting)

    Edition

    Original Artwork

    Year

    2020

    Sign

    Artists' signature on the front of the canvas

    Frame

    Unframed

    Description

    In this painting, in this moment, sea and sky, water and northern lights become one. The polar bear (and you) float in a moment of brightness, beauty and hope, in mindful appreciation of the moment before it is time to carry on with life's journey.

    This artwork us inspired by the polar bear's powerful swimming skills, and ability to swim great distances. What must it be like to travel in the water under the dancing northern lights? Pure magic!

    12” x 12” oil on canvas.

    This edges of this painting are painted black. It is wired and ready for hanging. It is signed on front, has a unique work completion number on the back

  • About this artist

    Concept

    My paintings (in both acrylic and oil) celebrate the beauty and intelligence of the polar bear through realistic portraiture. Backdrops of northern lights, icy reflections, dark water and night skies offer escape into the wonder of nature, and mindful solitude.

    The polar bear, a marine mammal, is dependant upon the frozen sea for hunting, mating, feeding, travel, and shelter. Climate change from carbon emissions is lowering the albedo of the earth, increasing the period of open water in the arctic from spring to fall, and increasing the distance between ice tops in winter. This leaves the polar bear and its cubs vulnerable to starvation, attack and drowning and puts its future at risk.

    Thus, the portraits of the "Dark Water Series" show the polar bear swimming in dark water. The polar bear, with its partially webbed front paws and buoyant body, is a powerful swimmer, but it needs the frozen sea to survive. I’d like the viewer to decide just how far outside the picture frame the next ice flow lies, or if the bear’s journey until this moment was, in fact, a solitary one.

    Some of the adult polar bears in my "Flowers for Polar Bears Series", are adorned with flower crowns composed of the Canadian provincial and territorial flowers. This is done in tribute to their place as the world’s largest carnivore and apex arctic predator, but is also about our shared responsibility for action re: climate change.

    In my "Into the Sunset Series", the darkness of the winter is retreating, as is the sea ice, so important for the polar bear's survival. The sun sets, offering hope for the new day ahead. The sun’s glory reflects off the remaining sea ice and the polar bear's translucent fur.

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    • If there is a string on the back of the canvas or the back of the frame, you can hang it with a pin type that has a short hooking surface.
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