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‘Fire & Ice’

 

Work developed from Julia’s trips to Iceland, in the summers of 2006-7

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Phone: 01953 498736

E-mail: wildplant@i12.com

Artist In Iceland

 

In 2006 Julia first travelled to Iceland as an artist-in-residence on board Swan Hellenic’s SS Minerva. Her time on land was brief and hectic, but she was highly inspired by the volcanic landscapes she saw, and produced the small ‘Icelandic Troll’ painting (left) , working from drawings and pieces of wood. Julia resolved to return to Iceland to do more drawings to extend her  ‘Natural Forms’ theme.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Melting Icebergs at Jökulsárlón

29” x 39” approx

Watercolour, pen & ink

2008

 

Jökulsárlón is a lagoon near Vatnajökull, the largest icecap in Iceland in the south of the country. The glaciers, often stained black from volcanic dust, melt rapidly in the summer and break off into the lagoon. There, they jostle about whilst the tourist boats sail around them, before they drift out to sea through the one outlet which passes under the main coastal road around Iceland.

 

Julia camped for seven days at Skaftafell, the main centre by the  icecap, either doing drawings of the glaciers, volcanic rock and basalt columns in the area, or travelling by bus to draw by the Jökulsárlón lagoon for the day. However, camping near a huge icecap was extremely cold at nights, and rarely did it warm up that much in the daytime.

Volcanic landscape forms, Landmannalaugar.

Oil

24” x 30” approx

2008

Landmannalaugar is another centre, further inland from Skaftafell. There is no ice, just surreal landscape forms of the most unusual colours.  The area was again very cold, and Julia warmed up by bathing in the fermal pools.

Lava Pool.

Watercolour, pen & ink

21” x 27” approx

2008

Trolls in the landscape, Pórsmörk

Watercolour, pen & ink

35” x 52” approx

2007

Möbius Ice-form.

Oil

28” x 36” approx

2008

Icelandic Troll

Pen & ink, watercolour

2006

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Julia spent two weeks in Iceland  last summer on her own drawing icebergs, glaciers and volcanic rock in a landscape largely untouched by human intervention. Unfortunately camping near a 100 mile wide ice-cube was a bit cold at nights!

 

 Here (right ) she is well wrapped up drawing icebergs at Jökulsárlón.