MORNING MUSINGS: MARCH 28, 2025

It has been a while since I have written anything - I have been busy painting.I began the “Ice Stations” paintings in the summer of 2024 at the Cox warehouse in Shelburne, Nova Scotia, and continued working over the winter in my studio in Arundel, Québec.   My marks attest to the traces and remains of human and scientific excursions to the Arctic.  The detritus embedded in the frozen surroundings represents a testament to departed human exploration and the nebulous effect of measuring impending life-changing events.These paintings are a mix of water-based media, on machine-made cotton paper, protected by varnish.  I like my works unframed and exposed to the viewer, with theauthentic pinholes, tears and smudges revealed.“Ice Stations” is an exhibition of paintings and presentations related to climate change that will be held from 2 July to 27 September 2025 at Shelburne’s Museums by the Sea, 20 Dock Street in Shelburne, Nova Scotia.

© joanna nash

Shelburne, NS, 2025