This work (one of three that can be hung either as a single work, diptych or triptych) is inspired by glaciers observed while taking a fixed-wing flight over the Southern Alps in New Zealand. The colours and unique contours of the glaciers nestled among the Alps were mesmerising. In choosing glaciers as a subject for the suite of works I have since painted and exhibited, I was mindful of the views of influential American artist Charles W Hawthorne (1872-1930) who made the important observation that the role of the painter is not merely to paint pictures, but rather to show people ‘more than they already see’. It is hoped that the work presented here will induce people to see more than they already see – to ‘see’ what they had perhaps not noticed previously – the infinite shapes and shadows, colours, crevasses and contours that constitute the world’s iconic ice sculptures that have been carved by nature over millennia. A related aim of this and other works in the glacial suite is to call for protective action of the world’s melting cryosphere and the existential threat to life that their irreversible loss poses.