Joining the Glacier series is ‘Sea Glass’. An oil painting on canvas. Much like my previous glacier painting ‘Jokulsarlon’ this painting is an icescape, or a landscape of only ice (backstory of why I am so interested in glacier paintings).

‘Sea Glass’ was created to be a color study of observed variations of light reflected, refracted, and absorbed in the glacier lagoon. I also wanted to create a more abstract version focusing on color effects and movement rather than form, perspective, and depth as in ‘Jolulsarlon’. The viewer’s eye is brought down in a downward diagonal than brought back up by the whiter glacier in the foreground creating a counter clockwise eye movement much in the direction of how the glaciers are melting. Downward. While creating the painting, I decided to title it ‘Sea Glass’ because of the similarities in appearance. More about the process is in the video.

style points- I painted this with a dislocated shoulder and broken arm