Pripyat, Chernobyl Exclusion Zone
The subject of this painting is the continuing aftermath of the Chernobyl disaster. I am interested in trying to convey the atmosphere of decay, abnormality, strange beauty and threat.
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20 years on, Chernobyl stands as a permanent reminder to the world of what can happen when nuclear power goes wrong. It is now one the most radioactive regions on the planet with areas that will remain uninhabitable for over 700,000 years. But it also exists, paradoxically, as a place of strange and unexpected beauty. A place where wildlife is actually thriving (the 30km exclusion zone around the power plant is now Europe's largest nature sanctuary). A region returning to an era before humans, a land of forests and wolves. The workers town, Pripyat, has become a modern Pompeii. The hastily abandoned Soviet buildings are now frozen in time as radioactive animals move in, radioactive trees grow inside and the concrete slowly crumbles.
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20 years on, Chernobyl stands as a permanent reminder to the world of what can happen when nuclear power goes wrong. It is now one the most radioactive regions on the planet with areas that will remain uninhabitable for over 700,000 years. But it also exists, paradoxically, as a place of strange and unexpected beauty. A place where wildlife is actually thriving (the 30km exclusion zone around the power plant is now Europe's largest nature sanctuary). A region returning to an era before humans, a land of forests and wolves. The workers town, Pripyat, has become a modern Pompeii. The hastily abandoned Soviet buildings are now frozen in time as radioactive animals move in, radioactive trees grow inside and the concrete slowly crumbles.
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