13" × 15", oil on linen (2010) Henrietta Nesmith Glacier, Quttinirpaaq National Park, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada From the INTO THE ARCTIC Project Lake Hazen is a thermal oasis in a polar desert that receives less than 2½ centimetres of rain per year. The...
27" × 62", oil on linen (2013) Tanquary Fiord, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada From the INTO THE ARCTIC Project Eight hundred kilometres shy of the North Pole is the austere Ellesmere Island. Here the enormity of the land, along with the clean air...
30" × 96", oil on linen (2014) Henrietta Nesmith Glacier, Quttinirpaaq National Park, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada Five days into my trip on Ellesmere Island and I had yet to start a painting.Camping near the top of the world in Quttinirpaaq National...
16" × 37", oil on linen (2012) Fort Conger, Quttinirpaaq National Park, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada From the INTO THE ARCTIC Project Site of the most tragic American Arctic expedition in history, Adolphus Greely and his 24 men landed here in 1881. When...
20" × 60", oil on linen (2020) Tanquary Fiord, Quttinirpaaq National Park, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada From the INTO THE ARCTIC Project Gracing the land briefly each summer, the flora carpeting each side of the creek was a sight to behold. In this...
12" × 13", oil on linen (2012) Tanquary Fiord, Quttinirpaaq National Park, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada From the INTO THE ARCTIC Project It’s a special time in the High Arctic when ice gives way to open water during the short summer season. I...
10.5" × 16”, oil on linen (2010) Henrietta Nesmith Glacier, Quttinirpaaq National Park, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada From the INTO THE ARCTIC Project During a 10-day hike on Ellesmere Island, my brother Carl and I found ourselves intimately close to the frozen walls...
13.5" × 12", oil on linen (2010) Quttinirpaaq National Park, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada From the INTO THE ARCTIC Project At the end of my month on Ellesmere, I pitched my tent in front of this view. As the evening light was lacklustre,...
9" × 16”, oil on linen (2011) Quttinirpaaq National Park, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada From the INTO THE ARCTIC Project Ellesmere Island is a treeless polar desert, with colours that are more subdued than those in the South. On the edge of Lake...
