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"Artistic Cartography"
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"Artistic
Cartography" We have access to a phenomenal array of maps which gives this concept endless possibilities. If you have a favourite summer retreat, cottage, canoe or boating trip, just about anything can be incorporated into a beautiful truly original piece of art. Please take a look at the maps below to help you with some ideas. |
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Nature Conservation Groups If you belong to a nature conservation group, this type of artwork would be ideal to demonstrate the importance of your work. Artistic Cartography has a unique way of bringing the subject matter, albeit an endangered species or a threatened habitat home to it's natural location on earth. An example of this would be my piece titled "Hawai'i" which depicts a mother Humpback and her calf in their native calving grounds of the Hawaiian islands. Another may be the "Ghost Bear" on the west coast of British Columbia on Princess Royal Island. This piece is yet to be done. Please email for information concerning special prices and donation information. |
Below are thumbnail images of my current maps. Click on the image for
more information and further details on
availability of the original. illustrations.
Below are two new maps that I have recently acquired. They are antique maps of a very high quality that I have had professionally scanned and reprinted on 225 gm paper. These maps will be used to create a Polar Explorer series and a Wildlife series. Once completed the Gilcee prints will be available.
Cartographer: Stieler Full Title: "Süd-Polar-Karte" Published: Germany,1897.
One of Stieler's more remarkable cartographic productions. A map with a staggering amount of detail, including not less than 14 individual (and highly detailed) inset maps, plus the tracks of numerous early Arctic explorers criss-crossing the oceans. These explorer's are all listed at the bottom, with dates of their journeys, the tracks of each displaying endless dates for points obtained along the way. A magnifying glass should be at hand when you examine this map. A key map in the evolution of this region cartographically- a map which should be in any collection of Arctic
Cartographer: Gray Full Title: Northern Regions Published: Philadelphia,1893.
An attractive example of this very uncommon late 19th century folio sheet map published by O.W. Gray. This map appears to be a scarce late re-issue of an earlier (c.1880-86) Gray plate, published in Philadelphia by Milton R.
Brown for his scarce "Continental Atlas". Evidently Brown bought the plates from Gray and re-issued them. In many instances, the plate imprint was left in place and predates the "official" publication date of 1893.
Below are some of my completed maps
"Endurance
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Sir Ernest Shackleton's Endurance caught in the polar ice of Antarctica. |
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Framed, double mat.
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"The Launch"
The Caird being launched in effort to reach South Georgia and send a rescue party for the remaining crew. |
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Framed, double mat. |
"Hawai'i"
The Humpback whale knows Hawaii very well and revisits every year. |
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Framed, double mat. |
Presently maps that are underway include a topographical map of Algonquin Park's Opeongo Lake with a moose scene, a topographical map of British Columbia's Gulf Islands with bald eagles and another commissioned "Sir Ernest Shackleton" piece.
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