Description
São Paulo Brazil, 01.12 Reuters
oil on braced gesso board, 30 x 40 x 2cm, 2022
Painted from filmed footage of a rescue, after catastrophic rain floods Brazil, forcing 1000 people to be stranded and in need of rescue.
Painted from an image published by UNHCR (UN Refugee Agency) on 3rd November 2022, showing the devastation after Typhoon Paeng, in the Philippines. The typhoon was one of the strongest ever recorded in the area. It shows children exploring a huge mound of debris dumped by the winds, and this human connection inspired the painting.
It was painted as part of a project I undertook in 2022 to paint a year of reportage images on the effects of climate change. I painted 46 works in 12 months. You can read more about the project in my News section. From October 2023 – April 2024 the entire project titled You And I Are Earth was exhibited at Firstsite Museum and Gallery in Colchester, Essex, Gallery East in Suffolk, and Anteros in Norwich.
My aim in painting the project was to put a pause on these dramatic images, which are fed to us through our televisions and phones, and can pass us by in under a second. I wanted to see what an entire year of my edit of these images would look like. Spending time with each had a profound effect on me.
10% of this sale will be donated to Greenpeace.
