Love This! Pastel Icebergs by Zaria Forman

Okay, so before we go any further with today's artist, we need to acknowledge that the iceberg image above is a drawing. That's right; not a photograph, a drawing.

Now that your mind has been blown, let's talk about the artist behind that drawing: 

Zaria Forman is one very impressive lady. She creates large-scale pastel drawings of melting iceburgs and rising coastlines in order to show how the Earth is changing due to climate change. All of the pieces in today's post were inspired by an expedition that she took up the NW coast of Greenland in 2012, and she is currently on another expedition aboard the National Geographic Explorer, traveling to Antarctica as an artist-in-residence. 

Her work is beautiful, moving, meticulously detailed, and of course, socially responsible. I love it. You can view some of my favorite pastel drawings by Zaria Forman below...

​[Above: Greenland No. 63, 50" x 75," Soft Pastel on Paper (2013)

Above: Greenland No. 62, 47" x 70," Soft Pastel on Paper (2013)

Above: Greenland No. 54, 40" x 60," Soft Pastel on Paper (2012)

Above: Greenland No. 50, 45" x 60," Soft Pastel on Paper (2012)

Above: Greenland No. 52, 45" x 60," Soft Pastel on Paper (2012)

Above: Greenland No. 71, 50" x 60," Soft Pastel on Paper (2014)

Oh, and I wanted to include the image above to give you an idea of scale...amazing, right!?!

You can view more of Zaria Forman's Greenland series (and her other work--I love her Maldives coastline drawings, too!) on her website. You can also follow her on Instagram to get a peek into her current expedition to Antarctica {the pics are INCREDIBLE}.

Enjoy!