Going With the Floe- acrylic on canvas, 20×40, $1800
Solo Exhibition at Galerie LaFab Oct 17 – Dec 6, 2026 https://lafabsurmill.ca/visual-arts/gallery/
In Going with the Floe, I used an expansive panoramic canvas to capture the immense scale of the High Arctic marine wilderness. The foreground is anchored by the massive flukes of a bowhead whale diving into a vibrant blue ocean, streams of turquoise water cascading from its tail. In the upper right background, I painted a tiny row of red canvas tents sitting quietly on the landfast ice – a direct nod to my personal experience living on the sea ice off Baffin Island. Rather than presenting humans as conquerors of the landscape, my goal was to highlight our fragile, minor presence within an ecosystem ruled by ancient marine giants.
To give the deep sea an energetic, colourful vitality, I built the ocean from a dense tapestry of pointillist dots and mosaic chunks of floating ice. By positioning our small human footprint against the endless blue peaks of the northern coastline, the composition emphasizes our quiet place within Earth’s grandest sanctuaries and the natural scale that governs this landscape.
