Greta Waller  has remained fascinated by ice for the past decade. From in-studio Ice Block paintings to the wintry mountainscapes of her Avalanche series, Waller captures the ephemerality of time with her paintbrush as it plays out in one of nature’s most fascinating resources. Born in 1983 in Indianapolis, IN, Greta Waller earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Cooper Union in 2006. She continued her studies at the University of Los Angeles, CA, and received her Master of Fine Arts in 2011. Waller has participated in several select summer and exchange programs, including the Chelsea College of Arts and Slade School of Fine Art in London, Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, and the New York Academy of Art in Manhattan. In 2017, Waller was invited to participate in the Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts at The American Academy of Arts and Letters, from which the Academy chose her as an Art Award winner.

Pieter Bruegel the Elder's 1565 painting, The Hunters in the Snow (Dutch: Jagers in de Sneeuw), also known as The Return of the Hunters, is a large-scale secular masterpiece, a genre painting in the medieval and early Renaissance tradition of the "Labours of the Month" (almost like a precursor of a modern-day photo calendar). In the foreground, hunters trudge wearily (one man carries the "meager corpse of a fox" illustrating the paucity of the hunt) toward the more joyful scene of revelry: an entire village seen skating about on the ice. In Mike Piggott's tribute, we zoom in past the depressed pack of hounds to a happy, yet contemplative scene. The artist working at his easel, different characters caught in the act of happy recreation; a performer, a nervous-looking couple, a voyeur. One singular figure appears as a mirage of gorgeous jewel tones, a mystical homage to Bruegel's own long-theorized mysteries, painted nearly 500 years later.