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The English Narrows Passage, Moradela Passage and Alberto de Agostini National Park are just some of the stunning locations I was lucky enough to experience while navigating the Chilean Fjords, on my way North towards Peru on the Marco Polo in 2019 (Grand Circle South America). It wasn’t the waterways that blew me away the most, however… it was the mountains.
I love mountains, and consider them to be some of my favourite subjects. They do come in all shapes and sizes, though. The mountains of the Lake District in Cumbria take on a completely new perspective when you compare them to the loftier mountains of the Scottish Highlands, for instance, both in terms of scale and the features that go to make them up. I’m a huge fan of them both, and had always considered the Scottish ranges to be some of the most spectacular I’d ever seen… until I saw these in Chile. So very different again.
In the end, I find myself not wanting to claim favourites, but simply acknowledge the grandeur that all mountains bring to this globe that we call home. I also like to acknowledge just how small and insignificant mountains can sometimes make us feel when up close an personal with them; no wonder climbers are so desperate to want to conquer them…
The larger the mountains are, the smaller in scale their details become – relatively speaking – and therein lies one of the more challenging issues of trying to paint them. If we get the scale of those details wrong, then our mountain might seem diminished in relative scale as a result. Hold back on some of those details, and the mountain may seem lacking. The snowfields visible on this mountain are both dramatic and intricate, but make no mistake… they are also huge and intimidating, and capable of putting us mere humans in our place.
The painting was produced as a part of a project for my online tuition service. The process of creating it also appeared in timelapse form in Part 4 of my Grand Circle South America video series. Click here to watch that episode.
This painting is supplied unframed, and will be dispatched in protective packaging with rigid backing panel, ready to take to a framer.
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