Shards, 2018
Oil on Linen
52" x 62"

For ten years I have been painting natural and not so natural disasters—and the blurring line between them. These images have became an external manifestation of an apprehensive mood fed by a growing litany of frightening catastrophes, a conflation of many destructive crises currently consuming the world. This exploration includes forest fires, hurricanes, tornadoes, volcanoes, bleaching coral reefs and melting icebergs. I am mesmerized by the power of these elemental threats, bigger and more frightening than ever, amplified rather than tamed by modernity.

Shards

Lava Lake, 2021
Oil on Paper
20" x 26"

For ten years I have been painting natural and not so natural disasters—and the blurring line between them. These images have became an external manifestation of an apprehensive mood fed by a growing litany of frightening catastrophes, a conflation of many destructive crises currently consuming the world. This exploration includes forest fires, hurricanes, tornadoes, volcanoes, bleaching coral reefs and melting icebergs. I am mesmerized by the power of these elemental threats, bigger and more frightening than ever, amplified rather than tamed by modernity.

Lava Lake

Decomposition, 2020
Oil on Linen
44" x 54"

For ten years I have been painting natural and not so natural disasters—and the blurring line between them. These images have became an external manifestation of an apprehensive mood fed by a growing litany of frightening catastrophes, a conflation of many destructive crises currently consuming the world. This exploration includes forest fires, hurricanes, tornadoes, volcanoes, bleaching coral reefs and melting icebergs. I am mesmerized by the power of these elemental threats, bigger and more frightening than ever, amplified rather than tamed by modernity.

Decomposition

Heart of Fire, 2020
Oil on Paper
26" x 20"

For ten years I have been painting natural and not so natural disasters—and the blurring line between them. These images have became an external manifestation of an apprehensive mood fed by a growing litany of frightening catastrophes, a conflation of many destructive crises currently consuming the world. This exploration includes forest fires, hurricanes, tornadoes, volcanoes, bleaching coral reefs and melting icebergs. I am mesmerized by the power of these elemental threats, bigger and more frightening than ever, amplified rather than tamed by modernity.

Heart of Fire

Iceberg in Rough Seas, 2017
Oil on Linen
52" x 62"

For ten years I have been painting natural and not so natural disasters—and the blurring line between them. These images have became an external manifestation of an apprehensive mood fed by a growing litany of frightening catastrophes, a conflation of many destructive crises currently consuming the world. This exploration includes forest fires, hurricanes, tornadoes, volcanoes, bleaching coral reefs and melting icebergs. I am mesmerized by the power of these elemental threats, bigger and more frightening than ever, amplified rather than tamed by modernity.

Iceberg in Rough Seas

Iceberg in Stormy Sea, 2017
Oil on Wood Panel
20" x 24"

For ten years I have been painting natural and not so natural disasters—and the blurring line between them. These images have became an external manifestation of an apprehensive mood fed by a growing litany of frightening catastrophes, a conflation of many destructive crises currently consuming the world. This exploration includes forest fires, hurricanes, tornadoes, volcanoes, bleaching coral reefs and melting icebergs. I am mesmerized by the power of these elemental threats, bigger and more frightening than ever, amplified rather than tamed by modernity.

Iceberg in Stormy Sea

Volcano—Ocean of Smoke, 2015
Oil on Linen
48" x 60"

For ten years I have been painting natural and not so natural disasters—and the blurring line between them. These images have became an external manifestation of an apprehensive mood fed by a growing litany of frightening catastrophes, a conflation of many destructive crises currently consuming the world. This exploration includes forest fires, hurricanes, tornadoes, volcanoes, bleaching coral reefs and melting icebergs. I am mesmerized by the power of these elemental threats, bigger and more frightening than ever, amplified rather than tamed by modernity.

Volcano—Ocean of Smoke

Overwhelmed, 2020
Oil on Paper
20" x 26"

For ten years I have been painting natural and not so natural disasters—and the blurring line between them. These images have became an external manifestation of an apprehensive mood fed by a growing litany of frightening catastrophes, a conflation of many destructive crises currently consuming the world. This exploration includes forest fires, hurricanes, tornadoes, volcanoes, bleaching coral reefs and melting icebergs. I am mesmerized by the power of these elemental threats, bigger and more frightening than ever, amplified rather than tamed by modernity.

Overwhelmed

Fountain, 2020
Oil on Paper
20" x 26"

For ten years I have been painting natural and not so natural disasters—and the blurring line between them. These images have became an external manifestation of an apprehensive mood fed by a growing litany of frightening catastrophes, a conflation of many destructive crises currently consuming the world. This exploration includes forest fires, hurricanes, tornadoes, volcanoes, bleaching coral reefs and melting icebergs. I am mesmerized by the power of these elemental threats, bigger and more frightening than ever, amplified rather than tamed by modernity.

Fountain

Ebbing Reef, 2019 
Oil on Canvas 
60" x 144"

For ten years I have been painting natural and not so natural disasters—and the blurring line between them. These images have became an external manifestation of an apprehensive mood fed by a growing litany of frightening catastrophes, a conflation of many destructive crises currently consuming the world. This exploration includes forest fires, hurricanes, tornadoes, volcanoes, bleaching coral reefs and melting icebergs. I am mesmerized by the power of these elemental threats, bigger and more frightening than ever, amplified rather than tamed by modernity.

Ebbing Reef

Cauldron, 2021
Oil on Linen
48" x 72"

For ten years I have been painting natural and not so natural disasters—and the blurring line between them. These images have became an external manifestation of an apprehensive mood fed by a growing litany of frightening catastrophes, a conflation of many destructive crises currently consuming the world. This exploration includes forest fires, hurricanes, tornadoes, volcanoes, bleaching coral reefs and melting icebergs. I am mesmerized by the power of these elemental threats, bigger and more frightening than ever, amplified rather than tamed by modernity.

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Karen Marston