Choose

The beautiful meadows and clear streams bountiful with fish are not something relinquished to our dreams yet. They do still exist, not in the abundance they once did, but can still be found within what seems to be a constant battle to protect natures beauty from overdevelopment. Sadly it seems to be a battle nature is loosing.

We still have a choice to realize that the most important place, the most important planet is the planet we live on and we need to do all we can to protect the biodiversity and beauty that still exist and repair what we broke. The planet and nature, are not part of a game, not a reality we can remake to our liking. There are clear consequences, be it a pandemic, polluted water, smoke covered skies, or an atmosphere used as a carbon dumping ground that turns against us with powerful storms.

I have come to believe empires fail because they disregard reality. How could you not fail under those terms?

Choose.

Belinda Chlouber

Through a stark and raw beauty, the viewer is drawn into Chlouber’s mixed media paintings and prints. The juxtaposition of sometimes whimsical and dark imagery plays against a beautifully rendered image to create tension regarding her subject matter. The primary focus in her recent body of artwork has been to awaken the desire to reconnect with the natural world and understand the impact humans are having on it. By doing this we can transform the climate and environmental crisis into an opportunity for growth. In researching our climate crisis and our relationship to the Earth she has worked to find imagery that arouses a desire in people to explore solutions and to live in a way that restores balance to the natural world.

The issues and themes throughout Chlouber’s work are problematic ones for humanity. Through research-based art, she works to make herself as well informed as possible. In 2015 she attended Al Gore’s Climate Reality Project training so as to better communicate the climate crisis through her artwork. Since this time she has exhibited her own artwork while also organizing exhibitions surrounding the climate crisis.

Through the deep reverence and awe of the natural world, Chlouber reminds us of all we have that we love. She finds inspiration in the world’s ability to reinvent itself every year through the seasons, translating that into her artwork and realizing that even in the darkest of days the seeds of spring are being sown.

Based on our agreement with the artist, 15% of the pre-VAT price excluding frames will be donated to support the social movement. Donation will be given to The Climate Reality Project.