Description
Storm – a whiteness coming apart
Painting on canvas tears white, silver-grey and blue across an upright format with the agitation of a squall arriving — abstract painting telling a storm through movement instead of through a picture of one.
Technique and texture
The work is built with the blade in fast short strokes; in places the colour is scraped back almost to the canvas and in others it stands in a thick ridge. The white went on last and partly covers everything under it. The gold accents are small and infrequent, set down with the point of the tool.
The motif
Not one edge anywhere in the picture closes into an object you could name. The upper right corner is the darkest passage, nearly black, and a grey mass descends across the canvas from it. A deep dark blue block with sharp edges lies left of centre, and the white opens around it into a bright pool. Small gold and ochre fragments appear along the lower edge.
Setting and placement
A pale, nearly monochrome picture goes with any wall colour and will not weigh a room down — a bedroom, a working corner, a hallway. The gold fragments are small enough to be found rather than seen, which rewards a spot you pass close to.
- Technique: hand-painted painting on canvas, fast short blade strokes, scraped and ridged passages, white laid last, point-set gold
- Palette: white, silver-grey, blue, gold, near-black
- Ideal for: bedrooms, working corners, hallways
- Character: agitated, pale, weatherlike
Choose the size that suits your wall.
Storm: upright sizes for narrow walls
The first photograph shows Storm on a wooden studio easel, its gold leaf and white relief caught in side light, and the second photograph shows the same canvas from the other side in front of rows of frame mouldings. The white, silver-grey and blue are hand-painted with a palette knife, and this painting of a storm is not printed.
Storm is painted in 14 upright sizes, from 40 x 60 to 180 x 270 cm. A narrow wall by a door takes 50 x 75 cm, a console 70 x 105 cm, a tall cabinet 80 x 120 cm, and a stairwell 110 x 165 cm; the rule is two thirds of the width of the furniture beside it. With YES under Stretcher the white and blue canvas arrives stretched on a wooden stretcher, ready to hang, and a frame is picked in the Frame menu, which starts at Without frame. Storm arrives in 15–45 days.
Storm before you order
Which size of Storm fits a narrow hallway?
For a narrow hallway choose 50 x 75 or 60 x 90 cm, so the dark blue block stays at eye level.
Are the gold fragments on Storm printed?
No, the gold and ochre fragments are set with the point of a tool, so they catch light differently from the white.
Does Storm arrive ready to hang?
Yes, if you pick YES under Stretcher, the silver-grey canvas of Storm is stretched on a wooden stretcher.
Can I get Storm in a size not among the 14 listed?
Yes, describe your wall on the paintings made to order page and we paint the white and blue Storm to your measurements.
