Scott Kelley

Cara's Iceberg

Watercolor on paper

29-1/4" x 39-1/4"

Scott Kelley

The Big Blue One

Watercolor on paper

55" x 77-1/2"

SOLD

Scott Kelley

The Slipping of the Hydrogen Bonds

Watercolor on paper

17-1/2" x 22"

SOLD

Scott Kelley

The Slipping of the Hydrogen Bonds

Watercolor on paper

17-1/2" x 22"

Scott Kelley

The Slipping of the Hydrogen Bonds

Watercolor on paper

17-1/2" x 22"

Scott Kelley

The Slipping of the Hydrogen Bonds

Watercolor on paper

17-1/2" x 22"

SOLD

Scott Kelley

The Slipping of the Hydrogen Bonds

Watercolor on paper

17-1/2" x 22"

Scott Kelley

The Slipping of the Hydrogen Bonds

Watercolor on paper

17-1/2" x 22"

Scott Kelley

The Slipping of the Hydrogen Bonds

Watercolor on paper

17-1/2" x 22"

Scott Kelley

The Slipping of the Hydrogen Bonds

Watercolor on paper

17-1/2" x 22"

SOLD

Scott Kelley

The Slipping of the Hydrogen Bonds

Watercolor on paper

17-1/2" x 22"

SOLD

Scott Kelley

The Slipping of the Hydrogen Bonds

Watercolor on paper

17-1/2" x 22"

SOLD

Scott Kelley

The Slipping of the Hydrogen Bonds

Watercolor on paper

17-1/2" x 22"

Scott Kelley

Icebergs, Hermit Island, Antarctica

Watercolor on paper

22-1/2" x 30"

SOLD

Scott Kelley

Iceberg, Loudwater Cove, Antarctica

Watercolor on paper

22-1/2" x 30"

Scott Kelley

Water, Glacier, Fog, Mountain, Neumeyer Channel, Antarctica

Watercolor on paper

22-1/2" x 30"

Scott Kelley

Sunset, Arthur Harbor, Antarctica

Watercolor on paper

22-1/2" x 30"

Scott Kelley

Dusk, Arthur Harbor, Antarctica

Watercolor on paper

22-1/2" x 30"

Scott Kelley

Halo, Antarctica, 10PM

Watercolor on paper

22-1/2" x 30"

Scott Kelley

Southern Ocean, 2AM, Antarctica

Watercolor on paper

15" x 22"

Scott Kelley

Ampitheatre, Arthur Harbor, Antarctica

Watercolor on paper

15" x 22"

Scott Kelley

Neumeyer Channel, Antarctica

Watercolor on paper

15" x 22"

Scott Kelley

Tabular Berg, Cormorant Island, Antarctica

Watercolor on paper

15" x 22"

Scott Kelley

Neumeyer Channel, Antarctica

Watercolor on paper

15" x 22"

Scott Kelley

First Iceberg, Southern Ocean, Antarctica

Watercolor on paper

15" x 22"

Scott Kelley

Arthur Harbor, Antarctica

Watercolor on paper

22-1/2" x 30"

Scott Kelley

Southern Ocean, 2AM, Antarctica

Watercolor on paper

22-1/2" x 30"

Scott Kelley

Jade Iceberg in Neumeyer Channel, Antarctica

Watercolor on paper

22-1/2" x 30"

Scott Kelley

Neumeyer Channel, Antarctica

Watercolor on paper

22-1/2" x 30"

Scott Kelley

Icebergs, Palmer Station, Antarctica

Watercolor on paper

22-1/2" x 30"

Scott Kelley

Twilight, Arthur Harbor, Antarctica

Watercolor on paper

22-1/2" x 30"

Scott Kelley

Sun Dogs, Antarctica

Watercolor on paper

22-1/2" x 30"

Scott Kelley

Southern Ocean, Antarctica, 2AM

Watercolor on paper

22-1/2" x 30"

Scott Kelley

In the Gerlache Strait, Antarctica

Watercolor on paper

22-1/2" x 30"

Scott Kelley

Amphitheater, Antarctica

Watercolor on paper

22-1/2" x 30"

Scott Kelley

Arthur Harbor, Antarctica

Watercolor on paper

22-1/2" x 30"

SOLD

Scott Kelley

Top of the Glacier, Marr Ice Piedmont, Antarctica

Watercolor on paper

22-1/2" x 30"

Scott Kelley

Dusk and Dawn, Loudwater Cove, Antarctica

Watercolor on paper

22-1/2" x 30"

Scott Kelley

Abbott's Rainbow, Antarctica

Watercolor on paper

22-1/2" x 30"

Scott Kelley

Tabular Berg, Cormorant Island, Antarctica

Watercolor on paper

22-1/2" x 30"

Scott Kelley

Bar Ice, Antarctica

Watercolor on paper

22-1/2" x 30"

Scott Kelley

Grounded Berg, Antarctica (For Elaine)

Watercolor on paper

22-1/2" x 30"

Scott Kelley

Bransfield Strait, Antarctica

Watercolor on paper

22-1/2" x 30"

SOLD

Scott Kelley

First Iceberg, Southern Ocean, Antarctica

Watercolor on paper

22-1/2" x 30"

Scott Kelley

Southern Ocean, 2AM, Antarctica

Watercolor on paper

22-1/2" x 30"

Scott Kelley

Neumeyer Channel, Antarctica

Watercolor on paper

22-1/2" x 30"

Scott Kelley

Iceberg, Antarctica

Ink on paper

15-1/2" x 22"

Scott Kelley

Iceberg, Antarctica

Ink on paper

15-1/2" x 22"

Scott Kelley

Iceberg, Antarctica

Ink on paper

11" x 15"

Scott Kelley

Iceberg, Antarctica

Ink on paper

15" x 11"

Scott Kelley

Iceberg, Antarctica

Ink on paper

15" x 11"

Scott Kelley

Iceberg, Antarctica

Ink on paper

15" x 11"

Scott Kelley

Iceberg, Antarctica

Ink on paper

15" x 11"

Scott Kelley

Iceberg, Antarctica

Ink on paper

15" x 11"

Scott Kelley

Iceberg, Antarctica

Ink on paper

15" x 11"

Scott Kelley

Iceberg, Antarctica

Ink on paper

15" x 11"

Scott Kelley

Iceberg, Antarctica

Ink on paper

15" x 11"

Scott Kelley

Iceberg, Antarctica

Ink on paper

15" x 11"

Scott Kelley

Iceberg, Antarctica

Ink on paper

15" x 11"

Scott Kelley

Iceberg, Antarctica

Ink on paper

15" x 11"

Scott Kelley

Iceberg, Antarctica

Ink on paper

15" x 11"

Scott Kelley

Iceberg, Antarctica

Ink on paper

15" x 11"

Press Release

 

The National Science Foundation Antarctic Artists and Writers Program deployed me to Palmer Station, Antarctica in the austral summer of 2003. I had almost no idea where I was going or what the place looked like, let alone what to expect. The NSF has warned me in advance to hope for nothing, as Antarctica has a way of thwarting the most well-laid plans. Secretly, I hoped for icebergs, but told nobody.

 

We sailed from Punta Arenas, Chile aboard the USRV Laurence M Gould, and on our third night as sea, approaching the Bransfield Strait about 2:00 AM, I saw it: my first iceberg. The sky and the water were black, but the southern horizon glowed with the intensity of an arc light: the ice from the White Continent, still hundreds of miles away, fluoresced through the pall like a beacon, drawing us south. A tabular iceberg the size of a hospital appeared off our port bow, glowing an impossible blue in the perpetual twilight, larger and still impossibly larger until it filled the windows of the pilot house. I ran our on deck, and as we passed the berg, still probably half a mile away, I could feel the cold radiating off the massive chunk of ice. In that moment, I knew this was going to be a journey without a guidebook, as the sheer scale and mass of that iceberg cause me unaware, and quite simply had me standing there, in awe. This was Terra Incognita, alright...otherworldly, and ungraspable, even now.

 

That iceberg, and all the others I saw during those 34 days at the bottom of the world, has long since disappeared, raising the sea level just a little bit more. That trip was legendary for icebergs, and even veterans of The Ice couldn’t remember seeing so many icebergs afloat along the way. I had dared to hope for icebergs, and Antarctica, in a rare moment of beneficence, gave me what I wanted.



 

Scott Kelley

Peaks Island, maine

2018

 
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