Beautiful Paintings By Artist Lisa Ericson Are Portraying Climate Change In A Fascinating And Unique Manner
Lisa Ericson’s paintings turn climate change into something vivid, strange, and hard to look away from. Her work does not just show nature under pressure, it imagines what happens when ecosystems are forced to adapt in ways that feel both beautiful and unsettling.
The Portland artist’s series, Islands, continues the ideas she explored in Mobile Habitats and Border Crossing. In these pieces, turtles carry tiny worlds on their backs, with land animals, plants, and water all blending into one surreal scene.
That mix of elegance and warning is what makes the series stand out, and the images below show just how far Ericson pushes the concept.
1. Buoy
2. Pollinate
3. Harvest
The series gets more striking the longer you look at it.
4. In the balance
5. Anchor
Each painting feels like a tiny world trying to hold itself together.
This pairs well with the powerful wildlife photos on display at London’s Natural History Museum, where the natural world is impossible to ignore.
6. Pollinate II
7. Horizon
8. Bleach
The final pieces leave a lasting impression.
9. Beacon
Her work makes the climate crisis feel personal, not abstract.
Heartbreaking as it is, watch the starving bear footage, and see what climate change does next: the bear’s desperate struggle.
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