Painting of North Iceland Flatey Husavik and the schooner Haukur by Rob Miller

North Iceland Flatey, Husavik and the small schooner Haukur
Oil on Canvas by Rob Miller

Its taken me over a year to get from the stage of small watercolours to an oil painting of the jetty at Flatey, Husavik a small island of the North Coast of |Iceland. We sailed there as part of my birthday celebrations to do some bird and whale watching on the small schooner Haukur. Haukur is part of the North Sailing Fleet based at Husavik. The views from Flatey were exceptionally wild I spent a lot of time trying to sketch and photograph the experience. Ive already blogged these but will be uploading an Iceland experience page onto my web site www.robmillerartist.org 

Flatey as the name suggests is a very flat Island bedecked with puffins and many other seabirds, It is a place of cultural heritage with an ex monastery and an ex library.  The views across the sea of  the iced mountains of the main land stretched on forever. Of legend is the spot where an Icelander was last eaten by a polar bear which are no longer at the top of the islands food chain due to the receding ice thanks to global warming. The island is only inhabited in the summer months except for a small band in the deep winter. The old houses are fascinating, restored in many cases.  More to follow.