This work is inspired by Mendenhall Glacier in Alaska, a landscape shaped slowly and decisively by ice, water, and time. The painting reflects the glacier’s layered history, where compressed ice, exposed rock, and meltwater coexist in constant transition. The marbled forms echo striated stone and glacial drift, while pools of turquoise and deep blue reference the cold, mineral-rich water flowing from the ice.

Rather than depicting the glacier literally, the composition focuses on movement and accumulation. Colours and forms build up like sediment, suggesting both the immense age of the landscape and its present fragility. Solid, weighty shapes sit alongside fluid passages, mirroring the tension between permanence and change that defines glacial environments.

The work holds a quiet sense of scale. Ancient forces are embedded in the land, yet everything remains in motion. It is a place shaped over thousands of years, now visibly shifting within a human lifetime.