Iceland Series
Across the sandur beneath Eyjafjóll

oil on canvas, 50cm x 50cm, Iain White 2009, £200

A small settlement nestles at the foot of the steep and abrupt edge of Eyjafjóll, the mountainous platform supporting the icecap of Eyjafjallaj?kull is seen across the Markarfljót valley. Glacial-fed streams flowing over Eyjafej?ll’s abrupt western and southern edges have created a string of spectacular waterfalls. However, beneath the icecap lies an active volcano which produced major eruptions in the eighteenth and nineteenth and now in the twenty first centuries, while sub-glacial melting in 1967 and again in 2010 sent sand and gravel laden flash floods, j?kulhlaups west down the Markarfljót valley.

Across the sandur beneath Eyjafjóll

oil on canvas, 50cm x 50cm, Iain White 2009, £200

A small settlement nestles at the foot of the steep and abrupt edge of Eyjafjóll, the mountainous platform supporting the icecap of Eyjafjallaj?kull is seen across the Markarfljót valley. Glacial-fed streams flowing over Eyjafej?ll’s abrupt western and southern edges have created a string of spectacular waterfalls. However, beneath the icecap lies an active volcano which produced major eruptions in the eighteenth and nineteenth and now in the twenty first centuries, while sub-glacial melting in 1967 and again in 2010 sent sand and gravel laden flash floods, j?kulhlaups west down the Markarfljót valley.