Svalbard expeditions
Understanding Planet Earth
Svalbard
Let’s get to know the world so we can take better care of it! One way is to follow Linnaeus’ students overseas. Anton Rolandsson Martin spent the summer of 1758 in the Greenland Sea and a couple of hours on Midtøya off the west coast of Svalbard. The IK Foundation found that particular skerry in 2016 and eventually built a field station on a nearby island. For a full year, five cameras, a sound recorder and a weather station kept us updated about the state of this very remote place.
I joined them on five Bridge Builder Expeditions along the north west coast of Svalbard in 2016-2019. My task was to render my impressions with my pencil and watercolours. A selection of drawings and paintings are included in Naturae Observatio Spitsbergen Science Expeditions. It is written by leading international authors and contains extensive thematic fold-outs. Apart from the field art, I translated and edited the bird chapter and contributed base facts for charts covering expeditions and historical bird observations. Purchase your own copy here.
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