Climate Change - An artists View

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.

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I have always been creative, enjoying to draw since 3 years old. However, art wasn't a prominent part of my life until several challenging and tragic family events occurred. Then in 2010 I went to TAFE and completed certificates I, II, and IV in visual art and I haven't looked back since. I currently paint using oils and acrylic.

My favourite images always come from the natural world, usually during my walks. I will see a scene where the light brings a rare moment of beauty that I want to capture for myself to relive and others to enjoy also. I photograph the scene and use it as the basis of my work but then use my memory of the moment to complete the painting.

Realism is my preferred style. I enjoy other styles between projects for variety. Recently I have been trying to represent my ideas as information visualisation abstracts.

I am very concerned about climate change and the threat to our beautiful world. My paintings capture that beauty and hopefully inspires us all to take care of our home.