Delighted to announce that Landscape Artist Anthony Garratt has joined Global Warrior to help communicate the messages of Climate Change.
And what a way to start!
Along with sailor Ella Hibbert - attempting to become the first to solo circumnavigate the Arctic Circle and further bring climate change to the fore - Anthony literally launched his huge depictions of icebergs along the Dart River, Devon, UK, for all to see.
The three images we supplied are from off the coasts of Coronation and Laurie Islands in the South Orkneys, Antarctica and from Borebukta off the coast of Spitsbergen, Svalbard, Norway.
Icebergs though beautiful represent the demise of glaciers.
It is thought by the end of the century only 1/3 of glaciers will be left on Earth if we carry on as we are.
Glaciers hold over 75% of the world’s fresh water.
When icebergs calve off of glaciers it causes the sea level to rise - they have risen 10cm in the last 30 years - an amount accelerating each year.
Icebergs are rapidly increasing in number and are treacherous to increasing amounts of shipping especially in the Northwest and Northeast passages - where Ella will traverse. See Ella In The Arctic
The water contained can be 100,000’s of years old.
Landscape Artist Anthony Garratt joins sculptor Nick Bennett and composer Helen Habershon as Global Warrior's Artists-in-Residence.
This is truly "Art for Great Sake".