Nerys Levy's Sketches for Climate Change Awareness - Art & Object
Nerys Levy's Sketches for Climate Change Awareness | Art & Object
Employing a use of form and limited space reminiscent of Milton Avery, with a strong contour line like Alice Neel or Georges Rouault, Levy has woven these stylistic elements from the strands of her own personal history.
Influenced by her native Welsh culture which “reveres landscapes and nature in both poetry and music,” the artist’s creative journey began with her grandfather. A Welsh poet and artist from Snowdonia, he would “go outside with me and look at the landscape and describe it” in Welsh, she recalls.
With views of the River Dee estuary and beyond, to the Irish Sea and England, Levy says she “grew up looking at vistas” every day. “I was aware of the power of nature,” shares the artist.
Related Knowledge Center: Climate science
What began as a theory in the 1890s — that industrial emissions of carbon dioxide could increase global temperatures — had progressed to a scientific fact a century later. Scientists across a range of disciplines are studying the impact of the still-growing concentration of carbon dioxide and other so-called “greenhouse gases” in the atmosphere as they call for industrial and governmental policies to slow, then halt, the warming of the planet.