Arctic Martyrs

Modern Martyrs was inspired by the iconography of Eastern Orthodoxy. The solemn saints who suffered and died, and are now immortalized as rigid forms against symbolic dark backgrounds with precious gold and silver leaf halos. To my mind icebergs have become a modern equivalent, victims of the Anthropocene. Our greed and selfishness is destroying the great ice both north and south. Once calved these icebergs survive just a few years before completely dissolving into the sea. In the meantime they are majestic reminders of what we are losing.

All images are painted in acrylic with gold, silver, and/or copper leaf applied.

28" x 22" acrylic on canvas with gold leaf Available This image was inspired by an early morning in Greenland, floating among these massive giants as the sun rose and realizing they would be gone in two years. Available

Fading in glory28" x 22" acrylic on canvas with gold leaf. Available

Acrylic painting of a distant iceberg with a gold halo across a field of ice that is stained with blood from a polar bear kill

Life and DeathSold

Painting of several icebergs at night, with reflections in the dark sea, northern lights, and the milky way filling the sky. two ice bergs have gold leaf halos

Halos and Northern LightsSold

Painting of an iceberg surround by a golden sky and ribbons of yellow and silver leaf

Golden LightSold

painting of an iceberg against a deep blue sea and sky with a large gold leave halo

Found objectsArtist's collection

Painting of an iceberg in the night sky with green northern lights behind it and with sea ice forming in the water. A gold leaf halos hangs behind the iceberg.

Green FireSold

Shards of Snow and IceSold

A massive ice berg against a gold leaf sky

MonumentalSold

Icebergs floating in front of a snowly mountain range, the largest has a gold leaft halo

Greenland in MemorySold

A group of icebergs floating in front of a glacier, the largest has a silver and gold leaf

Already Gone19" x 15" Acrylic on canvas board, framed. Available

A group of tabular icebergs against a silve leaft sky with a gold leaf halo

Snow SkiesSold

Soft Snow FallingAvailable

Painting of an iceberg still looking glacier with gold and silver haloes

Glacier’s Child20" 16" acrylic on masonite board with silver and gold leaf

A painting of an iceberg with a moon hanging above it and a stylized silver leaf door behind it

Perilous BalanceSold

Painting of white iceberg floating on blue water against a blue and gray background

Arctic blue14" x 11" Acrylic on masonite board. Available

Painting of a single iceberg in front of barren brown mountains with a a golden sky and a silver and gold leave halo

Arctic LightSold

Painting of an iceberg with a large ice cave reminiscent of the cathedral in Iceland with an art deco silver halo and reflection

Ice LandSold

Painting of an large ice berg with refelctions against a gold sky

In a Summer SeaSold

Starry Night

Painting of an iceberg with an art deco silver and gold leaf halo with a patterned sky and sea

Invisible Saints12" x 9" acrylic with gold, silver, and copper leaf. Available

Paintinf of an iceberg with a large arch floating on a blue sea against the aurora with a silver leaf halo

On a Winter NightSold

Painting of an iceberg surrounded by bergy bits against a barren mountain with a silver leaf halo

Unstable ShoresSold

Painting of snowy mountains and fjord with silver leaf sky

Silver Clouds9" x 7" Acrylic on canvas with silver leaf sky. Available