Abstract Snow Storm Scene

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Snow Storm (2023) is a painting of movement inside stillness — a visual expression of white chaos that softens instead of screams. This 60 x 60 inch acrylic on canvas work from the Ephemeral Atmosphere Collection captures the emotional texture of winter: layered, drifting, and strangely calming.

The canvas is composed of whites — not a single tone, but many: warm ivory, steel gray, translucent frost, and pearlescent shimmer. These hues swirl across the surface with gestural strokes, veiling and revealing marks beneath. There is no center. There is only motion. The storm, here, is not destructive. It’s enveloping.

I created Snow Storm while reflecting on the kind of overwhelm that quiets you. The painting became a study in surrender — not to force, but to softness. A way of letting go into a landscape that holds rather than hinders.

This work finds kinship with the atmospheric abstraction of J.M.W. Turner, particularly his ability to blur form into weather, presence into energy. Like Turner, I’m drawn to painting what can’t be held — only felt.

Snow Storm is not about snow. It’s about the experience of being surrounded, suspended. Of disappearing and still being there.

As part of the Ephemeral Atmosphere Collection, this piece celebrates the storm as a mood — not something to resist, but something to move within.

Ritu Raj | Contemporary Abstract Painter | Phoenix

Ritu Raj is a contemporary abstract painter based in Phoenix, Arizona, working mostly at scale — canvases of five to eight feet. His practice runs in two bodies: Abstract Inquiry, in oil and acrylic, and Organic Movement, which replaces the brush with thread, using gravity and viscosity as compositional instruments. More than 260 works, collected across the US, Europe and Asia.

He is also the author of ArtGraph, a language for abstract art: six dimensions that read the painting, three that read the encounter, a notation, and a catalog scored against all of them. The paintings are at rituart.com. The language is at artgra.ph.

The Shape of Seeing and The Unalgorithmic Self are forthcoming.

Art that listens.

https://www.rituart.com/
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