Ice Tiger is a large 40 x 40 x 1.5-inch oil painting on canvas of a white tiger in a distant and strange land. The tiger is stalking along a branch to the left, while behind her there is a gauzy, fantastical landscape that hints of trees and waterfalls in a jungle-like landscape. It is art nouveau, contemporary, expressionistic, semi-abstract in style, and was made by layering many colours over one another, with the final layer being white. My aim with the painting was to create a land where a tiger could be free. And because tiger survival is precarious right now, I wanted the painting to be whimsical, fleeting and strange. I think I achieved this! The tiger was originally orange and quite traditionally painted, but has become distorted and more abstract as I added more layers. This is a big, fresh painting that will fit well in clean white spaces. It is on deep-edge canvas, with white edges; no frame needed, ready to hang.
