Expeditionary artist Tony Foster has developed his 19th wilderness journey with a complex idea as its foundation: Time. Foster has created a series of paintings, dating from 1993 to 2025, that explore both a macro and micro look at time and how it affects, sculpts, and alters the land, from brief changes in weather and light to seasonal changes to biological and geological time. The images tell of nature’s processes, divided into geological, biological, human time, and fleeting moments. Foster’s experienced eye locates nature’s power, its fragility and adaptability, connecting to an understanding of millennia as readily as the timespan of a human life while wrestling with the realities of humanity’s footprint. “I want to draw attention to the unseen forces that create place.”

One of the world’s most accomplished watercolorists, Foster paints the remote and wild places on Earth, creating largely on-site, extraordinary watercolor diaries. The paintings—each including artifacts or mementos from the location pictured, geological maps, and diaries addressing the artist’s time spent on location—demonstrate nature’s power, its fragility, and adaptability.

Direct from London, England, an international traveling exhibition not to be missed!