Environmental Art Series
Artists Lynn Dodge and Karen Haub are pleased to introduce their Environmental Awareness Series. Their collaboration began at a local art collective, where they discovered a shared commitment to exploring the fragile relationship between humanity and the environment their art.
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By merging their respective expertise, they have produced compelling artwork that conveys a significant message that neither could achieve independently. Each piece engages viewers with current environmental challenges, inspiring them to take part in individual or collective actions within their communities and promoting optimism for a sustainable future.
The Fall of the Amazon
24"w x 36"h, Mixed Media Assemblage
The painting captures the light and beauty of the world’s largest and most biodiverse places on earth. The 10 million old rainforest is home to millions of species that help create and sustain this ecosystem.
Forests act as carbon sinks and can remove pollutants from the atmosphere, making them a highly versatile tool to fight air pollution and mitigate climate change.
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With as much as 17% of the forest lost already to deforestation, scientists have warned that decades of human activity has brought the Amazon to a critical “tipping point”
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Last Dance of the Honey Bee
40w" x 30h", Mixed Media Assemblage
This piece developed as Karen and I discussed the plight of the honeybees as they suffer from impaired function, hive collapse, and death due constant exposure to pesticides. The names of some of the pesticides responsible for the near extinction of the bees are collaged into the piece.
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Tears of the Sea
30"w x 40"h, Mixed Media Assemblage
The Channel Islands marine debris volunteers are stewards of the ocean who collect and remove plastics and trash that endanger and kill marine and island life native to Santa Cruz Island, this is some of the debris removed from Santa Cruz Island, which acts as a trash barrier to the Santa Barbara and Ventura coastal areas.
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Due to its position in the current flow of the Pacific Garbage Patch, a lot of plastic debris littering the ocean washes up on the south facing side of Santa Cruz Island endangering and killing native birds, sea birds, marine life, and island foxes.
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River of Forgotten Sorrows
36"w x 24"h, Mixed Media Assemblage
This piece is a tribute to the people who live along an 85 mile long stretch of the Mississippi River between Baton Rouge and New Orleans, called “Cancer Alley".
It is called this because of the high number of people living with cancer in the area due to 150 oil refineries and petrochemical plants that have been spewing petrochemical distillates into the air and water since the early 1980’s. Many of the people in this parishes are dying of cancer and are too poor to move.
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Firestorm
38"w x 48"h, Mixed Media Assemblage
Although wildfires occur naturally and play a long-term role in the health of the forest, the dramatic change of wildfire patterns over the decades poise a threat to these ecosystems, life and property.
A number of key factors include increased temperatures, drought, warmer & longer seasons, drier soils and the presence of trees, shrubs and other potential fuel.
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