Mt. Wrangell Ice Field
“Ice Field” original acrylic and watercolor painting by Gail Niebrugge, sold.
Piloting my own single engine Cessna along the lower elevations of the Wrangell Mountains, Alaska, worked fine until I became so fascinated with the subjects outside the windshield that I would forget to fly. It soon became clear that to obtain the best reference material for use in future paintings, I needed someone else to be pilot. Thus began a three decade relationship with every kind of aviator and aircraft in the region. Some were the best, and others were worse than worse. I have had almost every experience possible, except a crash. Somehow, I have always been spared. Many of my friends have died in accidents in the Wrangells, these mountains and their unpredictable weather seem to swallow up life. Nevertheless, I keep going, and flying, and painting them. This painting is from an aerial perspective of an ice field part way up the active volcano Mt. Wrangell.
More tomorrow,
Gail Niebrugge, wilderness artist
