Svalbard - High Arctic Expedition
In Autumn 2016 Janette 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.
"Working with such a remarkable landscape I felt completely 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 is slowly emerging in the studio reflecting this experience.
My journey through the Arctic is charted in my Blog
Large drawings and paintings - oil on canvas
Fjortende Julibukta mixed media on canvas 112cm x 150cm
Falling, Hiorthfjellet. 130x130cm oil on canvas
Dissolving, Fjortende Julibukta oil on canvas 150x130cm
Hiothfjellett in ice fog, Graphite on Mylar, 135x 80cm
Fjortende Julibukta, diptych, mixed media on paper 2019
Gipsvika, Svalbard, mixed media on paper, 78°26,2´N, 016°25,9´E
