South Georgia is remote and mountainous with abundant wildlife particuallry on the coastal fringe as well as the surrounding ocean. Uninhabited apart from two small research stations and a few government employees to supervise and administer the numerous tourist visitors. It is an unspoilt wilderness with a fascinating heritage of exploitation of its wildlife (seals and whales) and is now environmentally vunerable.
From 1974 to 1977 I had spent three austral summers on Bird Island, a small island off the north-west end of South Georgia and had been looking for an opportunity to return. A couple of years ago I'd visited South Georgia as a guest on board a large tourist ship to begin pushing forward the Troubled Waters project, but this trip on Pelagic Australis offered a completely different experience. Besides, the project needed a substantial move forward and this trip would present wonderful creative opportunities.
South Georgia Shoreline (King penguins and fur seal).
Watercolour mixed media. H: 104cm x W: 134cm
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