Yosemite Creek - Acrylic on board - 60cm x 50cm

Yosemite National Park embraces a spectacular tract of mountain-and-valley scenery in the Sierra Nevada, which was set aside as a national park in 1890. The park harbours a grand collection of waterfalls, meadows, and forests that include groves of giant sequoias, the world's largest living things. So Victor - had he visited - would have felt at home in this the greatest of Americas national parks.

But he decided to stay at home and produce this wry comment on the state of the world today - this work is poignant emotional and intense. From his interest in in the polluted streams and waterways of the USA Victor has produced this work of timely significance. See the shockingly putrid waters of the near shore area note all the colours of the rainbow denoting pollution to a high degree. See the depleted wild life aptly depicted by the two and a half seagulls flying south for the winter

Reflect as you may on the post Mount St Helens eruption sky and wonder at the genius of Ibbotson as commentator on a world in desperate need of global salvation