Break Up Klondike River (2017) vault

Break Up Klondike River (2017) vaultOil on canvas 24 x 30 in Painted at the moment when the ice begins to fracture and the river forces its way back into motion. Cool light skims across frozen plates while deep currents flare with rust and violet, revealing the tension between thaw and flow stillness giving way to movement. Exhibition History Homestay, The Old Fire Hall, Whitehorse, 2017 Provenance Artists Studio

The town looks washed clean

but in the way distortion exposes truth

echoing the movement of butterflies without depicting a single one

the house — all captured in a haze of heat

A haunting piece from Halin’s time in Guanajuato

and the horizon wavers like a dream

earth exposed

It captures that fleeting moment when autumn colour feels both triumphant and already fading

sun-lit yellows into deep blue shadows and fractured glacier forms

while the deep blue surface of the creek pulls the viewer’s eye into the composition

Sun-struck willow and alder blaze gold along the riverbank while cold water braids around a tangle of driftwood lodged mid-current

recording the landscape in a moment of violent change