'Gift of Snaefellsjoekull' 2024
Dip-pen drawing in oak-gall ink. Hand-made watercolours, traditional recipes and techniques using historically accurate, genuine earth pigments sourced from Iceland.
Hand-applied genuine 22k gold leaf in the traditional method, made in Italy.
Italian, eco-certified, archival, artist quality, animal free paper
Framed in Tasmanian Oak Natural Timber
*Note a sample of the raw pigments and gold leaf is on show at Honest Paper
 
This work has been created to showcase three very particular, genuine ochre pigments, they are extremely rare and therefore precious ochres from a western part of Iceland, around the volcano Snaefellsjoekull. If you look closely, you can see the tiny particles that have been ground from rocks, as such, you are so close to being in Iceland. Because these pigments are so rare and hard to find, the gold leaf that has been used in this artwork is genuine goldleaf (now also rare and precious).
The gold dots around the artwork represent the thousands of stars you can see in a wild place. And the design itself was influenced by 18th Century Icelandic embroidery patterns.
This artwork is intended to be both symbolically and materially a tacit connection to a time and place of immense beauty and wonder.