Mental Health Break: Visions of Arctic light

by Emily Gertz · 2009-08-12 22:28:00 UTC
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Above: "Svalbard # 30," by Zaria Foreman, chalk pastel on watercolor paper. See it bigger.

I'm in love with these dreamlike pastels by Zaria Forman of Greenland seascapes, which I discovered quite by accident last weekend, while doing some research about Canadian Inuit artist Kenojuak Ashevak.

They fulfill my most irrationally romantic notions of the Arctic as a remote, otherworldly region of elemental beauty. However unrealistic that is, it's still a source of inspiration for working to save the Earth's coldest places.

Forman (who unsurprisingly mentions the Hudson River School of 19th century landscape painters as one of her earliest influences) exhibits at a couple galleries in New York City, so if you're in the area, check them out.

Emily Gertz
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