Description
Argentina Wetland Fires 18.02 Reuters
Oil on birch wood panel
30 x 40 x 3cm
2022
Argentina Wetland Fires 18.02 Reuters was painted from a news report on peat fires in Argentina in February 2022. I painted it from a drone photo published on Reuters website accompanying the report and was drawn to the image of the fireline and the men attending it, some on horseback. These I represented with the merest touch of paint amongst swirling smoke.
The painting is in oil on a braced birch wood panel with clean wooden edges. It doesn’t need framing but can be should you prefer.
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.
My aim in painting the project was to put a pause on these dramatic images which are fed to us through our tvs 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.
