Will Strathspey weather allow Arctic talk audience through?
Grantown will hear all about the frozen Arctic tomorrow lunchtime....if the Strathspey weather allows!
Dedicated explorer and artist Georgia Rose Murray, hopefully with the frostbite finally out of her fingers after her latest tour, will give a gripping account of working through all four polar seasons in one go when the doors open at the Community Centre's cinema at 11am.
She has travelled the world, but nowhere was she more in touch with it than during the long polar night of the far north: “The cold was so intense that everything froze up, including my fingers, until I thought the roles had reversed – I was there to paint the landscape, but I felt it was painting me...”
She escaped before becoming a permanent feature in the volcanic ash and ice that so fascinates her, bringing all her fingers with her to start nursing them back to health.
“It was completely worth it,” she told the Strathy recently on launching her latest successful exhibition, “Arctic Darkness and Light”, at the High Street Merchants and Fiona’s Wholefoods.
Tomorrow's talk is aimed at augmenting her visual work to promote care and concerning for our changing climate, as highlighted by COP26.
Her works depict her fascination with ‘the sublime effects of light and darkness on the natural landscape’, her holistic approach driven by her desire to understand precisely how humans fit into the natural and spiritual worlds.
Writing and drawing throughout day and night, the artist constantly reflects on all of her experiences with coloured pens in sketchbooks.
The results of the process form ‘narratives which lead to the creation of paintings’, she explained.
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