Code Blue
Oil on Canvas, 48″ x 36″, 2014
Present Water
Split fountain monotype printed on Rives BFK paper, 11″ x 17″ (image size), 20.75″ x 26.25″ (frame size), 2010
Life at the Edge
Split fountain monotype printed on Rives BFK paper, 11″ x 17″ (image size), 20.75″ x 26.25″ (frame size), 2010
62° 24’S 059° 47′ W (Disappearing, Antarctic)
Monotype printed on Rives BFK paper, 11″ x 17″ (image size), 20.75″ x 26.25″ (frame size), 2010
Forced Migration
Split fountain monotype printed on Rives BFK paper, 16″ x 20″ (image size), 25.5″ x 29″ (frame size), 2010
Liquid Space II
Etching: Direct gravure with color aquatint printed on gampi chine collé mounted on Somerset Satin, 8 (edition size), 9″ x 11.5″ (image size), 18″ x 20″ (frame size), 2010
No Water
Oil on three panels with brass faucet, 9″ x 40″, 2012
74° 13’N 084° 00’W (Vanished, Lancaster Sound, High Arctic)
Split fountain monotype printed on Rives BFK paper, 16″ x 20″ (image size), 25.5″ x 29″ (frame size), 2010
60° 10’S 60° 38’W (Drake Passage, Antarctic)
Monotype printed on Rives BFK paper, 11″ x 17″ (image size), 20.75″ x 26.25″ (frame size), 2010
76° 00’ N 74° 39’ W – Midnight Sun Baffin Sea
Monotype printed on Rives BFK paper, 11″ x 17″ (image size), 20.75″ x 26.25″ (frame size), 2010
64° 50’ S 062° 33’W (Neko Harbor, Antarctic)
Monotype printed on Rives BFK paper, 16″ x 20″ (image size), 25.5″ x 29″ (frame size), 2010
76° 00’ N 74° 39’ W – Impermanence, Baffin Sea
Etching: Direct gravure with color aquatint printed on gampi chine collé mounted on Somerset Satin, 8 (edition size), 8.5″ x 11.50″ (image size), 17″ x 19.5″ (frame size), 2010
Disappearing Life #601
Etching: Soap ground color aquatint with mixed media mounted on Somerset Satin paper, 8 (edition size), 8” x 8”, 2010
Split fountain monotype printed on Moulin de Larroque handmade 400 gm paper, 12″ x 17″ (image size), 17″ x 22″ (floats in frame), 2010
72° 42’N 77° 57’W (Permafrost Thaw, Pond Inlet, High Artctic)
Monotype printed on Rives BFK paper, 11″ x 17″ (image size), 20.75″ x 26.25″ (frame size), 2010
Through Frozen Centuries II
Etching: Direct gravure with color aquatint printed on gampi chine collé Somerset Satin, 8 (edition size), 8.75″ x 11.50″ (image size), 18″ x 20″ (frame size), 2006
Degradation #302
Split fountain monotype printed on Rives BFK paper, 8” x 8”, 2010
65° 14’ S 064° 10’ W (Ice Pack – South Atlantic Ocean)
Split fountain monotype printed on Rives BFK paper, 17″ x 22″ (floats in frame), 2010
64° 41’S 062° 38’ W (Ice Shelf Adrift, Antarctic)
Split fountain monotype printed on Moulin de Larroque handmade 400 gm paper, 12″ x 17″ (image size), 17″ x 22″ (floats in frame), 2010
65° 10’ S 064° 08’ W (South Atlantic Ocean, Antarctic, Ephemeral I)
Monotype printed on Twinrocker handmade paper, 7″ x 9″ (image size), 10.5″ x 12.5″ (floating), 2010
77° 00’ N 72° 47’W (Disappearing, Baffin Bay High Arctic, Ephemeral II)
Monotype printed on Twinrocker handmade paper, 7″ x 9″ (image size), 10.5″ x 12.5″ (floating), 2010
77° 28’ N 69° 38’W (Vanishing, Qaanaaq Coastline, Greenland, Ephemeral III)
Monotype printed on Twinrocker handmade paper, 7″ x 9″ (image size), 10.5″ x 12.5″ (floating), 2010
77° 29’N 69° 20’W (Distant Shores, Qaanaaq, Greenland, Ephemeral IV)
Monotype printed on Twinrocker handmade paper, 7″ x 9″ (image size), 10.5″ x 12.5″ (floating), 2010
Tjelda Michas-vander Meijden
Artist Statement Metaphorically my work explores the transience of our time on earth — an ever-changing place of refuge and peril — and the quest for immortality inherent in the human spirit. The advent of accelerated global climate change, with a focus on water, guides the issues of transformation and impermanence in my work, and compels me to grapple with the many complexities of this emerging reality.