White And Blue,

it seems so simple,

  but with so many shades of white and blue, the results of Pastel artist Zaria Forman’s subject of her choice the glacier, look amazing, above “Lincoln Sea, Greenland” (2019), soft pastel on paper, 68 x 108 inches,

 we have featured the artists work a couple of times before, “Jakobshavn Glacier, Greenland” (2018), soft pastel on paper, 68 x 102 inches

 the Brooklyn-based artist travels worldwide, often accompanying scientific expeditions, “Charcot Fjord, Greenland” (2018), soft pastel on paper, 90 x 60 inches

 “Hiawatha Basin, Greenland”, soft pastel on paper

  “Weddell Sea Southeast off the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula” (2018), soft pastel on paper, 60 x 90 inches

 “Arctic Ocean Northwest off the coast of Ellesmere Island, Canada” (2018), 40 x 60 inches

 “Supraglacial Lake (between Hiawatha and Humboldt Glaciers), Greenland, July 19 2017” (2018), soft pastel on paper, 60 x 81 7/8 inches

 “Getz Ice Shelf, Antarctica” (2018), soft pastel on paper, 40 x 60 inches

 “Jakobshavn Glacier, Greenland, 69° 4’51.58N 49°28’24.41W, April 29th, 2017” (2018), soft pastel on paper, 108 3/8 x 68 inches

she travels to experience and document glaciers firsthand, taking thousands of reference photographs to inform her enormous pastel drawings, she travels to experience and document glaciers firsthand, taking thousands of reference photographs to inform her enormous pastel drawings, Forman shares that she draws from memory as well as from her reference photographs. “Occasionally I will re-shape the ice a little, or simplify a busy background to create a balanced composition, but 90% of the time I am depicting the exact scene that I witnessed, because I want to stay true to the landscape that existed at that point in time.” what stunning pieces of artwork.

With All The Talk Of Global Warming,

I thought these photographs,

 were going to be of ice shelf's breaking off,

 and how we are warming the polar icecaps,

 so they will all be gone,

 in a few years, but I was wrong,

 they were not photographs at all, they were paintings made by Zaria Forman who we have featured on our blog before, She works using pastels, the good news was that this past winter, She had the opportunity to be side-by-side with the the towering ice shelfs, observing their magnitude aboard the National Geographic Explorer during a four week art residency, “Many of us are intellectually aware that climate change is our greatest global challenge, and yet the problem may feel abstract, the imperiled landscapes remote,” says Forman, “I hope my drawings make Antarctica’s fragility visceral to the viewer, emulating the overpowering experience of being beside a glacier.”

She has a solo exhibition of her work titled Antarctica opening at Winston Wächter gallery in Seattle, U.S.A. on September 9 and running through November 4, 2017,

You can watch a timelapse of Her completing her drawing Whale Bay, Antarctica no.4 in the video above, stunning, absolutely stunning.

When I First Looked At These Pictures,

I thought they were photographs,

but I was wrong, they are in fact photorealistic large soft pastel drawings by Zaria Forman, 

 she grew up travelling with her family to remote locations,

 where she put pastel to paper,

she received her Bachelor of Science in Studio Arts in 2005, at Skidmore College, since then her work has received much attention in the art world with solo and group exhibits nation wide, museum and private collections, and notable art fairs and auctions, 

She is currently represented by DFN Gallery in NYC, the David Floria Gallery in Aspen, CO and the Winston Wachter Gallery in Seattle, WA. and has an upcoming exhibition at Carla Massoni Gallery that opens in March 2014, what a great talent Zaria truly has.