Paintings About Pollution - Our Fragile Environment

These paintings are my reaction to pollution and the damage we do to our fragile environment. The series began after a journey through the vast, unspoilt Mojave Desert on my way to Taos, New Mexico. Its beauty, silence and vulnerability stayed with me. By the time I reached Taos, I knew I had to paint that feeling.

Paintings about pollution - The Mojave Desert at the edge of industrialisation - Stop

Industrial encroachment into the Mojave desert is a steady process - like the Amazon rainforest once it is lost it is gone forever.

Leave it Alone!

Driving through the Mojave reminded me how beautiful untouched places can be. I want that feeling of freedom, space, silence and awe in the wilderness to remain undisturbed.

Landscape painting with a deep red sky, inspired by New Mexico

unspoilt arizona desert - feel the silence - do not pollute

oranges and blues in the unpolluted mojave desert

That long journey made me truly appreciate the natural world, and how vulnerable it is to encroachment and pollution.

The Series

Each painting is different, but all share the same aim — to make pollution visible.

There are so many ways to pollute

The first painting in my series explores the many ways we damage our environment. I simply called it - Pollution

painting showing the many ways of damaging our environment

environmental art - the fragile Earth being mined for minerals

Red is the Colour!

Red came naturally as the colour for environmental damage, an obvious choice for the powerful message I wanted in - Power Train

Pollution and Deformed Bodies

We absorb pollutants, and they can deform both body and mind - Carbon Footprint

surreal painting showing a large deformed foot from the consequences of pollution - carbon footprint

My pollution paintings draw attention to the threats facing our environment. Together, they create a powerful message that words alone cannot express.

environmental art showing oil spoiling the land

Shout out the Dangers

The damage to our planet is everywhere but so many of us choose not to see it. Painting is my way of shouting out the dangers - Impact

Oil - so Destructive

Oil is polluting and devouring our world - Destruction.

environmental art - concerns over global warming - self destruction

painting about the consequences of denial of pollution

Denial has Consequences

The last painting in the series so far. Denying or ignoring the consequences of pollution can only lead to more damage - At Your Peril

It Doesn't Have to be Like This

We can change the landscape to meet our needs without destroying its beauty.

mountains in the desert - Painting by Alan Brain

Leaving Payson Arizona at 0400 hrs. on route to Taos New Mexico - Quiet Expectation

Paintings about Pollution - Driven by Love for Our Home

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Another Strong Art Series

I paint a series driven by a strong emotion from within. I visited Flanders in France to see the graves from World War One. It changed me and I expressed my hatred of conflict in the series Contemporary War Paintings.