Ice Messengers
Ice Messengers
Diana Randolph
Artist Statement
I was beckoned to paint ice on Lake Superior after hearing a presentation at the May 2006 Climate Change workshop by UW Madison limnologist John Magnuson who has studied and observed lakes for many years. He said that ice is a miner’s canary to a limnologist. He encouraged me explore the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) website which includes ice chart data of the Great Lakes from numerous years. There I discovered that on February 6, 1973 total ice coverage for all the Great Lakes was 14.32 percent. On February 4, 2002 ice coverage was only 6.46 percent. My favorite event each February is to cross country ski in the Book Across the Bay (Chequamegon Bay), a night time race lit with ice luminaries from Ashland to Washburn. If ice coverage continues to lessen each winter that magical ski event may not be able to take place.
Biography
Diana Randolph lives in the Northwoods of Drummond, Wisconsin; has exhibited
her landscape paintings nationally and teaches art workshops.
She’s the author of IN THE HEART OF THE FOREST, a chapbook
of poetry and paintings and also writes short plays and fiction.
In Wisconsin she is represented by Art Beat of Hayward; Purple
Pelican Gallery of Spooner; Stone’s Throw Gallery of Bayfield;
Whispering Pines Gift and Gallery of Cable; her home studio: Once
in a Blue Moon Studio; and Pine Tree Gallery of Ironwood, Michigan.
Diana received a B.A. degree from Northland College in Ashland,
Wisconsin, majoring in Art.