A storm begins to rise — massing cloud, restless sea, the cliff braced against its gathering force. The surface holds areas that seem unfinished, yet this incompleteness speaks of the storm itself: unsettled, unresolved, about to break.
This painting also carries the charge of a lived moment: a day of unleashing weather in 2021, hail driving bitterly through the air, senses sharpened to a point of aliveness. It was a day of standing in power, of realising that desire could exist alongside choice — that what gathers within us can be as potent as the storm above.