中文简介：

从西西里岛的火山到北冰洋，描绘了自然界的各种极端情况

英国画家Emma Stibbon（生于1962年）对变化中的环境非常着迷。她的作品经常探索自然力量的影响：构造板块的移动、火山活动和强大的冰川塑造和改变了地球的表面。Stibbon曾陪同研究探险队在北冰洋和南极洲航行，在夏威夷生活和工作，并多次访问挪威、冰岛和西西里岛北部海岸的斯特隆博利。

本书展示了她在旅行期间的素描作品。这些作品具有利用手头的材料快速完成的即时性，例如在困难环境和常年冰冻的条件下产生的火山灰。

艺术家通过与火山学家和冰川学家的讨论，解释了为什么她喜欢描绘大自然的极端情况。

英文简介：

Feverish sketches of nature's extremes, from volcanic Sicily to the Arctic Ocean

The British painter Emma Stibbon (born 1962) is fascinated by environments in flux. Her work often explores the impact of natural forces: the shifting tectonic plates, volcanic activity and powerful glaciers that shape and transform the Earth's surface. Stibbon has accompanied research expeditions in the Arctic and Antarctic Oceans, lived and worked in Hawai'i and has made several visits to Norway, Iceland and Stromboli, off the coast of northern Sicily.

Fire and Ice presents the sketches she made during her travels. They have the immediacy of work made at speed using materials to hand, such as volcanic ash, produced in difficult circumstances and often frozen conditions.

The book is introduced by the artist, who, informed by her discussions with vulcanologists and glaciologists, explains why she is drawn to depict nature's extremes.