In Autumn 2016 I traveled to the High Arctic sailing up the coast of Svalbard from Longyearbyen to Fuglefjorden on a tall ship as part of a 3 week expedition with the Arctic Circle, an annual expeditionary residency programme.

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Working with such a remarkable landscape I felt overwhelmed by the sheer scale of such an extreme environment on the peripheries of the world. Landing and walking beside glaciers, up into drifting mist hanging in dark snow-strewn mountains, standing on deck watching a thunder grey and pale blue world passing, and trying to capture all this on paper was an impossible task. New work slowly emerged in the studio reflecting the experience.

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My journey through the Arctic is charted in https://extremewavetheory.blogspot.com/2016/09/the-arctic-calls.html