Celestial Seamount

MollyMaps

The Good Supply Midcoast Artisan Store Celestial Seamount Water Color Underwater Painting by Artist Molly Maps Made in Maine USA
  • The Good Supply Midcoast Artisan Store Celestial Seamount Water Color Underwater Painting by Artist Molly Maps Made in Maine USA
  • The Good Supply Midcoast Artisan Store Celestial Seamount Water Color Underwater Painting by Artist Molly Maps Made in Maine USA
  • The Good Supply Midcoast Artisan Store Celestial Seamount Water Color Underwater Painting by Artist Molly Maps Made in Maine USA
  • $950.00

This one of a kind mixed media artwork is comprised of watercolor painting and pen and is part of a series called "The Vast Pelagic: Works from an Artist-at-Sea." Depicting a mountain in the deep sea, it is remarkably similar to what we remember of mountains above sea level.

From the artist: "All of the work in this exhibit was created at sea, aboard an oceanographic research vessel traveling from Samoa to Hawaii in January of 2018. I was an honored “artist-at-sea” with the Schmidt Ocean Institute. During the two week journey across this vast and deep section of the equatorial Pacific, my job was to create ways of communicating the current scientific research and deep-sea mapping technologies aboard the R/V Falkor. But in addition, I could not help be overwhelmed but the astounding power and beauty and scale of the open ocean. The works in this exhibit portray a true exploration of the vast pelagic world and how we attempt to navigate it and know it for ourselves."

- Measures 24" x 10.5" x 1"
- Mixed media, watercolor with pen
- Walnut frame, UV glass

Molly is a visual artist, map-maker and geographer. She discovered geography at Middlebury College and went on to receive a Ph.D. in Human Geography from the University of Colorado, Boulder. She received a Watson Fellowship and a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship to explore the value of map-making for communities and individuals. Molly has worked in environmental and art education for organizations, universities, and schools across the country. Her current projects involve map-making with children, conveying climate change through landscape painting, and custom maps for place-based organizations. 

Her work has been featured in The Alpinist, The Middlebury Magazine, The Starbucks Digital Network, and The New York Times. 

Clients include: The Nature Conservancy, The American Mountain Guide Association, The World Wildlife Fund, The Trust for Public Land, The Great Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, the Penobscot River Restoration Trust, Climber and Writer Majka Burhardt, and the Schoodic Peninsula Visitor's Center. 

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