Adele Gibson Art
Visions of Elsewhere
The beyondness of things
150 x 110cm
oil on wood pane
Ice fall
110x 80cm
oil on wood panel
Distant northern shore
100 x 100cmcm
oil on wood panel
Ice Floe
Oil on wood panel
80 x 70cm
Pastel arctic winter light
Oil on wood panel
80 x 70cm
Indigo dreams
Oil on linen
70 x 50cm
Dreaming of the polar night
60 x 40cm oil on wood panel
Twilight Disko Bay
60 x 40cm oil and gold leaf on wood panel
'You know of what I speak'
50 x 50cm oil on wood panel
SOLD
Arctic Memories
60 x 40cm oil on wood panel
SOLD
Moulin
45 x 30 oil on wood panel
Some say the world will end in fire
45 x 30 oil on wood panel
£780
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A land beyond time
45 x 30 oil on wood panel
SOLD
Red sky I
30 x 30cm cm oil on wood panel
Colour of memory
30 x 30cm cm oil on wood panel
Red sky II
30 x 30cm oil on wood panel
The movement of ice
20 x 20cm
oil on wood panel
Night on the glacier
24 x 24cm cm oil on wood panel
Night on the glacier II
20 x 20cm cm oil on wood panel
SOLD
Transient landscape I
30 x 24cm oil on reclaimed zinc plate
Hydrosphere
28 x 16cm oil on reclaimed zinc plate
These works have been inspired by visits to the far north. Firstly Iceland in 2015 and 2016, followed by a residency with the Arctic Circle artistic residency in Svalbard in 2018. Finally I visited Greenland in August 2022. Each trip gave me a different perspective on the geology and climate of these wild and remote locations. In Iceland I walked under and over a glacier, delving deep into an ice cave and seeing hundreds of metres of blue glacier ice above me. I walked over the surface of a glacier in May at the start of the melt season and experienced the surface being awash with streams of water. In Svalbard I had a life changing experience spending 3 weeks at sea, seeing many glaciers and watching the awesome spectacle of calving events. The most recent trip to Greenland in late summer 2022 allowed me to get up close to icebergs floating in Disko bay, Ilullisaat.
It's difficult to put into words how profoundly these experiences affected me, so I paint and hope that viewers will connect on some level with my thinking and feeling about how awe-inspiring, precious and vulnerable the Arctic region is.