“What if, traveling the arctic, you entered a blowing snow drift and, unknown to you, a polar bear entered from the other side? By the time you both knew this, it would be too late."This painting is the way I expressed the discovery. My “White Encounter – Polar Bear” came out of a challenge I gave myself to paint most of a painting in a slender range of almost whites, like a composition on a piano in four notes high in the tonal treble clef.” – Robert Bateman
