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.
