Snow Storm

Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 5ft x 5ft
Creation Date: 2023
Collection: Ephemeral Atmosphere

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.