48 × 36” unframed on 1.5” stretcher bars

When framed: In a silver floater frame with black sides, but looks best in a deep white floater frame or black deep floater.

My mother and I traveled to Alaska together on a cruise through Alaska’s Inland Waterway, late in her life, when she was about 80 years old. While on the trip, we took many excursions in smaller boats, whale watching, seal and otter watching, and bird watching. On one of our adventures, we were on a small fishing boat and hit stormy seas, where we were pelted with icy rain, despite it being August, while we watched whales breaching and seals leaping and swimming around us.

That memory stayed with me vividly, and after we were home, I started painting an Alaska series. This painting was the second in the series, depicting the glaciers and forests in the distance, and icy water of the Mendenhall Glacier area.

The painting has a lot of textures and layers of colors showing through the white ice, with small figures and abstract shapes appearing in the sky and water as they did that day when we were out to sea.