Arctic
60°N, 130°W · Lesley Tannahill · 2026-09-22
Lesley Tannahill2026-09-22Lesley Tannahill2026
Creative rationale
Over the Arctic Ocean northwest of Canada's Mackenzie Delta, where the Beaufort Sea meets endless ice, an unusual warm anomaly of 14.6°C above normal creates a profound disruption in the frozen landscape. The steep pressure gradient of 85.11 hPa/cell combined with this dramatic temperature anomaly drives a composition where chaotic, breakthrough marks violently interrupt carefully built layers, while the high humidity of 76% allows deep archaeological traces of earlier painted sessions to ghost through the surface.
License: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. Attribution: James Tannahill / art.jamestannahill.com. No commercial use or derivatives without permission.