Aerial Ice Floe

Alistair Carr | Oil on Canvas | 48 x 52 inches 

Alistair Carr was born in 1970 in Cape Town, South Africa and raised in Scotland and England. He is an artist, travel writer and explorer.  After various commercial adventures in Western and Eastern Europe, he set off for Outer Mongolia in his late twenties where he lived and travelled with steppe and taiga nomads – drawing and painting as he went.  He is the author of two acclaimed travel books, the second of which is an account of a camel journey across a nomadic region of the Sahel during the Second Tuareg Rebellion where no westerner had been seen in living memory. He has lectured on both sides of the Atlantic and is a former trustee of the Royal Geographical Society.

Alistair spent several weeks living amongst the Inuit, as artist in residence, in the remote community of Upernavik on the coast of Greenland in the Arctic Circle and captured the evanescent ice in all lights and conditions throughout the lengthening spring days, even getting frostbite along the way.

The Inuit, once great sea nomads, told him that twenty years ago the winter sea ice was two metres thick – today it’s more like ten centimetres.  In December 2016, it rained instead of snowed there for the first time. And migrating birds, like the eider dipper that once only fleetingly visited southern Greenland 1400kms away, are now actually breeding there.

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