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If you've ever seen the Aurora, you'll know that incredible feeling of awe and wonder. I made it my mission to see the Northern Lights and became a bit of an Aurora chaser towards the end of 2024. I made my first attempt by trekking up Curbar Edge in the pitch black (alone since my husband was at home with our baby). Despite dressing up warm, my fingers were freezing and fumbled with my camera. I thought multiple times I might die, either through my own stupidity and tripping on the uneven ground or I might get murdered by someone going for a midnight cycle. I managed to capture a faint glow, though the moon was bright and it was cloudy and it was nothing I could see myself. Disappointed, I went home, but I was not giving up!

In October I went back to Carlisle to visit my parents. I got the alerts that an aurora was coming and I was lucky that my family live in the middle-of-nowhere countryside with low light pollution. At 7:30pm I let my eyes adjust to the darkness and could actually see a pale glow of green in the sky. I was so excited to behold these faint pastel colours - I was actually witnessing the aurora! This was nothing of course. By 9pm there was a huge burst. I drove out a little way with my mum as columns of green reached up into the sky and a tremendous pillar of red sliced through the green. The way they swirled and moved was truly magical. I felt I could die happy at this point, having finally witnessed them in person. My mum drove back home so that my dad could come out and see them and for a moment I sat alone gazing up at the sky. It made me feel quite small and insignificant in comparison to this natural wonder.

I was in bed before midnight, but after the excitement and the cold, I couldn't sleep! I went back out again at 1am and the whole sky was just a blaze of red. Since that special night I have wanted to capture the aurora in paint. This collection aims to celebrate the natural beauty of such a wondrous phenomenon, but also the animals who live at the poles, where auroras happen more frequently. These animals are beautiful, but their lives are often a struggle due to global warming and climate change. I want these pieces to be joyous, but with an undertone of tension and solitude. I want the colours to enliven people, but for them to also stop and think about their existence on this planet, and that of the Arctic and Antarctic animals and how our existence impacts theirs. Of course, you may read something entirely different into each painting, and that's fine! That's the joy of art.