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Three years ago, Nicole Kelner was working at a climate tech company and feeling burned out. To relax, she challenged herself to paint a watercolor every day for 100 days.
Kellner: “They were originally just relaxing activities after get off work, but it turned into my paintings about solutions to climate change.”
When she shared her paintings online, they quickly went viral. Four months after picking up a paintbrush, Kellner quit his job to create climate art full-time.
Many of her paintings help explain climate solutions.
She drew diagrams of how a geothermal heat pump works, created posters of vegetarian protein sources, and drew sheep grazing under solar panels to show how agriculture and solar power can coexist.
But sometimes her images are more whimsical—like a painting of a wind turbine that reads, “Renewable energy? I'm a big fan.”
Kellner: “I want to create art that visualizes the world we want to live in.”
She also teaches through online workshops how to use art as a climate communication tool to help others do the same.
Kellner: “My art has impacted millions of people. … My goal with this course is to inspire others to create art that can impact millions more people.
Report source: ChavoBart Digital Media
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