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I have had a long career as an estuarine and marine biologist. I am very concerned about the future of the planet, especially habitat loss and pollution. This artwork started as a pure abstract, mainly using white, black and grey paint but also a very cool blue grey. A wide variety of mark-making methods were used, including brushwork, direct application with a palette knife and application of slightly diluted paint so that it ran under gravity taking other paint with it. A new technique was to put white paint into a scientific sieve used for particle size analysis and forcing the canvas up to the underside of the sieve to remove the paint. The final result reminded me of ice-melting (the top part) and scientific graphs (lower part), hence the title.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Ice Age is Going has sold to a collector in the USA, but if you want you can commission a broadly similar artwork at any size.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n

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Entire painting<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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A detail of the painting<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Painting in situ<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Commission a similar artwork<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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