Original Painting by Alaska artist Gail Niebrugge
“Open Water” original painting
15″x20″ acrylic/ watercolor on rag board, matted and framed under glass SOLD
Limited edition prints SOLD OUT
Another painting from Alaska artist Gail Niebrugge’s work in the Wrangell-St. Elias region of Alaska’s wilderness. “Open Water” was painted in 1994 from research done several years earlier in October during freeze-up along the Chitina River while the artist was a guest of wilderness guides and operators of the Ultima Thule exclusive adventure lodge, Paul and Donna Claus. What fascinated Niebrugge was the patterns made by the ice as portions of this mighty glacier river froze solid. Within a few weeks the river was frozen from bank to bank, and by late November this thick ice becomes a wide open surface easily supporting the weight of snow machines, airplanes on skis and making travel easier. The lingering low light of winter Alaska sunset creates brilliant color all across the sky reflecting from ice, water and snow beautiful, intense and glowing. This painting was reproduced in a limited edition print that is sold out.
That is really clever, Gail – solid and fluid; warm and cool. Very effective.
Noella 🙂
Winter creates all sorts of interesting images to paint. Gail
A painting like that says so much more than a photo. (Sorry, Ron) We studio artists have to stick together. Dot
Ahhh…..spoken like a true artist (and friend) 🙂