Icelandic Artist in Residence – Natural Stone Balance Sculptures in Iceland during our cyle tour of Iceland

…. The cycle tour of Iceland was the second country outside the UK that we have visited on our world cycle tour was also an opportunity to organise as a self funded self organised travelling artist in residence. I had also decided not to take any of my usual artist materials such as sketchbooks drawing materials and watercolours. I did not want to be influenced in how I would normaly creat an artwork, although I do fully expect to creat drawings and paintings as I normally would, that woukd be something I would begin during the usual winter pause in our world cycle tour.  It was important to me to just SEE the place …. to immerse myself in the culture and character of Iceland and whereever possible visit museums and art galleries or visit public artworks to get the feel of how artists respond to Iceland. …. and to respond to the landscape in as pure a way as possible.

…. I also wanted to respond to the landscape in a way that left no environmental impact … this was super important …. secondly to divest from any commercial interests so that the artwork was not destined to be in a gallery and that the artworks could be free from any commercial influence. ….

…. This gallery then is a document of just a few of the land art stone balance sculptures I created as a direct response to the volcanic landscapes and character of Iceland …..

…. some I deliberately did not photograph …. some collapsed before I could image them …. and some are deliberately hidden ….

…. Some have titles …. Some not ….