Another Landscape - South Georgia

A couple of blogs ago I promised an Antarctic painting coming on.  So here it is.  This painting is set in Summer, on South Georgia, in the Antarctic.  We visited there in 2007, and this painting is a composition of things we saw.  The painting is set at Gritviken, an old whaling station, and now a museum and scientific base.  Gritviken is also the place where the explorer Ernest Shackleton is buried.  So, I have called this painting "Graveyard - South Georgia", and as you will see Gritviken is a graveyard for old exploration vessels as well.  Shackleton's grave is in the graveyard at the left rear of the painting, across the harbour.  To contrast against the dead ships and the graveyard, and the stark mountain sides and scree slopes, I have included a sign of life in the form of grass, and a baby seal.  There were hundreds there when we visited - this one looks as though it has been disturbed whilst sleeping in the tussock.  The colour of the sea is a very cold-looking blue.  Funny enough, my husband recognised the place when I first showed him the painting, so there must be some resemblance.  I would love to add somer red to the painting to give a lift to it, but there just wasn't any around.


Graveyard - South Georgia