During a spring, road trip to southcentral Alaska I took a side trip to the head of Turnagain Arm, to one of Alaska's most accessible gems, Portage Lake. Prior to 1984 I would have been able to see the glacier from the viewpoint of "Breakup on Portage Lake." Prior to 1914 the lake didn't even exist since the glacier totally filled the basin. I painted this painting based on a photo I took of the lake that June day as shoreline cottonwoods were just beginning to put on their spring green "plumage." I added the abstracted ice floes to provide an avenue into the painting, an avenue that might have existed but a few days earlier.
This painting ended up being accepted and displayed in an international exhibition, a National Weather Center Biennale in Norman, Oklahoma and subsequently appeared in a Southwest Art Magazine review of the event.
During a spring, road trip to southcentral Alaska I took a side trip to the head of Turnagain Arm, to one of Alaska's most accessible gems, Portage Lake. Prior to 1984 I would have been able to see the glacier from the viewpoint of "Breakup on Portage Lake." Prior to 1914 the lake didn't even exist since the glacier totally filled the basin. I painted this painting based on a photo I took of the lake that June day as shoreline cottonwoods were just beginning to put on their spring green "plumage." I added the abstracted ice floes to provide an avenue into the painting, an avenue that might have existed but a few days earlier.
This painting ended up being accepted and displayed in an international exhibition, a National Weather Center Biennale in Norman, Oklahoma and subsequently appeared in a Southwest Art Magazine review of the event.