Painting My Antarctica!

http://2041.com/alumni-spotlight-oli-wheeldon-2013-iae-alumni/Here is the link to 2041's post about my first paintings of Antarctica after my own incredible experience there!Painted in Petrol, Oil and Coal, based on the premise that when viewed from a distance it is a landscape, but as you get closer, it becomes a mess, because of fossil fuels.I hope for it to act as a metaphor for mankind getting closer to exploiting Antarctica and destroying even more natural beauty.It has taken me a while to post it, as the fate of the painting is yet to be...

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The Milky Way

This post will be based on something I have been saying during my talks to local school's I thought it'd be good to write it down somewhere in case I forgot it!This image reminds me of a story we were told in Antarctica by an incredible man call Sai Prasad from India. Last year he was in an orphanage and was speaking to a 6 year old girl. He happened to ask her where her home was, and she replied 'the Milky Way is my home'. This took Sai a back and it took us a back when he told us, because to say the Milky Way is your home tells us so much! It...