Acrylic on stretched canvas, ready to hang.

Signed on the front.

Climate change is such a powerful topic that has become a political issue despite the enormous amount of scientific evidence collected over decades. I decided to do research for months and then put that information into an artwork that shows all the different aspects in rings and how they link up to cause serious outcomes for all life on Earth. The outer ring explains how the interaction of the sun and our atmosphere results in our climate. The hands show how our behaviour, shown in ring 2, comes back to destroy our wealth shown in ring 4, cause climate refugees shown in ring 5 and mass extinction if we continue on our current path is represented in ring 6. Ring 3 is the "ring of hope" and shows the behaviour we must embrace to limit the severity of the climate change that we are already experiencing. It will become even more servere as we continue to increse the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
This was a 6 month project that took me to every possible emotional destination and this is why it is bright and firey. I found using simple symbols allowed me to incude a huge amount of information into the painting.