#lgalimmersion

Throughout our trip around Iceland I kept being amazed at how big everything seemed to feel. It was either an enormous space of rock and nothing more, an incredibly high mountain, or a seemingly infinite glacier. That's what I wanted to show in this piece.

A sneak peek at my piece for the @lightgreyartgallery art show 'Immersion: Iceland Residency Exhibition'. The opening is May 25th 7-10pm in Minneapolis. I had the honor of participating in an artist residency in Southern Iceland last summer. I miss soaking in all its glorious landscape and watching the puffins fly to and from the cliffs. Come check out the art show and see the awesome work other artists in the residency have created.

Daaaaamn Minneapolis, you know how to show a girl a good time.

You can purchase art and prints from the show here: https://lightgreyartlab.myshopify.com/collections/immersion-an-iceland-residency-exhibition

This cake is an Icelandic dessert called Hvít súkkulađiskyrterta, a recipe by Nanna Rögnvaldardóttir, whose book I found in a nice café and book shop where we had a wonderful hot chocolate with my fellow artists. I remember taking this book into my hand and put it back to the shelf, then take it again. When I saw the photo of this cake I could sense that kind of excitement and enthusiasm that always precedes a creation or testing of a new recipe. Finally Ellen my dear photographer friend convinced me to buy this book so I could virtually take the taste of Iceland with me back home. Baking this cake in Hungary and put together little memories from our trip brought me back to this wonderful one week and I am grateful to live those moments of peace and finding my way back to the source of my creative energies.

A piece inspired by Iceland really couldn't be about anything other than the feeling of being in those landscapes. It was awe-inspiring, peaceful, and humbling, and that's what I've tried to say with this piece.

I wanted to include some of my most memorable parts of the landscape that we experienced while in Iceland. The amazing waterfalls, the pools of water, the beautiful colours of the moss and other plants contrasting with the rock and the dive-bombing terns.

I was inspired by the black volcanic rocks along the shores of Iceland. Obviously, it is not recommended to lie on the shore so closely to the waves, especially in Vik. The piece was painted in gouache on Arches cold press paper.