Brr!

New work, Untitled oil/board 22" by 48" (c) Jamie Bollenbach 2004

Arctic imagery is certainly popping up in my work- both these paintings start out as a color pallette and a smoothing tool. But the imagined quality - these are not copied or observed from any source - is important. This is the idea of the Arctic as a setting for figurative marks and movements.

Unfortunately there is only a hint of it's true color here - particularly in the "water," which is a set of deep green, blue and even crimson glazes. The painting is a little higher contrast, and lighter and much richer in the range of blues, greens, and purples in person. The vertical marks also stand out much more.