Joe Decker
Photograph
61cm x 49cm

A colourful dwarf arctic birch, with the iceberg-laden Røde Fjord in the background. For me, the wide-angle perspective of this image really emphasizes the struggling birch, and the beautiful icebergs and snow-lined fjords behind remind me of just how amazing it is that this plant has been able to keep a foothold. I like to imagine that the name of Røde Fjord comes from this short annual season of colour, but I suspect that’s not really the case.

Valery Muhin
Photograph
61cm x 49cm

Last call was given too head back to the ship and being one of the last ashore I saw this little guy and I got down and took some shots, as you can see it pays to get down low to get a different perspective – seal level.

Geoffrey Ricardo
Intaglio Print
61cm x 50.5cm

There is an excitement that runs through the group when the right animal pops into view. You can almost feel the nervousness of the zodiac drivers when the passengers get excited by the wildlife and jostle about for the right vantage point for the intended photograph, that moment is a point close to chaos as all focus on that point.

Gregory Frux
Oil on Canvas
61cm x 50.5cm

December 22nd, after a smooth, fog bound crossing of the Drake Passage, we arrived in the South Shetland Islands. Things went so smoothly that our arrival Half Moon Bay was our second landing of the day. From my journal– “Amazingly, we sail to another spectacular location during dinner. Weather cleared and we were looking at glaciers, icebergs and mountains. Food was good, but scenery better! Low light was spectacular, skipped second landing and did two oil paintings working outside in the cold. Crazy colours– green skies. ” The print image is based on a scaled up version of oil sketch painted on ship deck. The evening lingered very late that night, so close to the Summer Solstice.

Valery Muhin
Photograph
49cm x 61cm

Being a zodiac driver and a photographer one season I would take out groups of keen photographers and explore with the zodiac, you get close to icebergs and you get some amazing icebergs with all shapes and sizes to photograph as I have here.

Maria Coryell-Martin
Watercolour
61cm x 50cm

MMaria Coryell-Martin embarks on expeditions to paint remote regions vulnerable to climate change. Since 2005, she has painted in Greenland, along the Antarctic Peninsula, on glaciers of British Columbia, and in the North Cascades mountains in her home state of Washington (USA). Maria’s iceberg artworks are inspired by her time along the Antarctic Peninsula as Artist-in-Residence with Quark Expeditions (2006, 2008). The Peninsula is experiencing rapid warming, with an increase in mean average temperature of more than 3 degrees C over the past fifty years. The many abstract shapes and forms of icebergs are a visual representation of the loss of ice and melting occurring in the polar regions.

Maria Coryell-Martin
Watercolour
49cm x 61cm

Maria Coryell-Martin embarks on expeditions to paint remote regions vulnerable to climate change. Since 2005, she has painted in Greenland, along the Antarctic Peninsula, on glaciers of British Columbia, and in the North Cascades mountains in her home state of Washington (USA). Maria’s iceberg artworks are inspired by her time along the Antarctic Peninsula as Artist-in-Residence with Quark Expeditions (2006, 2008). The Peninsula is experiencing rapid warming, with an increase in mean average temperature of more than 3 degrees C over the past fifty years. The many abstract shapes and forms of icebergs are a visual representation of the loss of ice and melting occurring in the polar regions.

Geoffrey Ricardo
Intaglio Print
61cm x 50.5cm
I worked this print from a photo I took another while taking a zodiac ride around Melchior Island. The atmosphere was close and grey with a very slight snowfall. I tried to catch in the artwork the still beauty at the time, the stunning shape of the floating ice, something of the ephemeral beauty of the time and the place, the fleeting presence of the visitors as a collaboration with the place at the time.

Dominic Barrington
Photograph
61cm x 47.8cm

This massive ice berg with amazing stripes was floating on the Scotia Sea. I was amazed and impressed by the sheer scale and beauty of the berg, and the contrast it made with the dark and foreboding skies. The Chinstrap penguins and southern giant petrel add scale to this berg. The Chinstrap penguins have made this ice berg home for a period of time, and the Southern Giant Petrel in the lower right corner was perusing the penguins in search of an opportunistic meal. I did not have long to take this image as we sailed past this massive berg on our way to Elephant Island.

Geoffrey Ricardo
Intaglio Print
61cm x 50.5cm

On the beach at the rookeries I’d often wonder what it must be like for the penguins when the visitors arrive. A group of many-headed Cyclops with one point of focus in mind, one point of perspective for the stars of the show when the expeditioners landed. Even with the profound beauty of the landscape surrounding us I wondered whether any one would have gotten off the ship if the penguins weren’t there, myself included.

Janet Morgan
Watercolour
61cm x 47cm

Christmas Eve morning the cloud cover closed down our vision to a thousand feet over the level of the sea, but later it lifted and we were witness to a grand spectacle of snow-covered peaks in every direction. It was one of the most beautiful places I have ever been. I painted four fast watercolours, changing paintings as the ship slowly turned on its anchor and a new view appeared. This large painting was painted later in the studio (the original is 40 x 26″), based on the sketches and a strong memory of a truly magical scene. I drank in every minute, happy that the sun was not going away, as it illuminated the snow and water and rock and sky with a thousand shades of blue.

Joe Decker
Photograph
61cm x 49cm

Often the most interesting light on the landscape appears when the sun is at or near the horizon, particularly when that light “sneaks into” an otherwise cloudy scene. In this image I awoke before 4 a.m. one morning to see that somehow a shaft of direct sunlight had just begun to enter this Greenlandic fjord, casting a bright red beam across the mirror-like water.

Sandra Walser
Photograph
61cm x 49cm

The photo was taken in July 2008 in Sermermiut, Greenland. On this particular day the beautiful bay close to Ilulissat was packed with huge icebergs. I was hiking the grounds with my compact camera, the clouds hung very low, it was misty and drizzling and I didn’t really pay attention to the scenery. Suddenly the fog lifted, and in the distance, I spotted a lone wanderer at the far edge of the world, so it seemed. The scale added a sense of awe. A truly magical moment, that was there for a split-second only. I was in the right place at the right time.