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Ephemeral Atmosphere · 2023
Abstract Snow Storm Scene
Available · in the studio, Phoenix
White that doesn't hold still — the snowstorm caught at the moment it becomes more feeling than weather.
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.
Where to see it. In person at RituStudio, Phoenix, by appointment. Represented by Jarrow & Goodman, Los Angeles.
The space it needs
- Wall
- At least 8 ft wide
- Ceiling
- 9 ft or more
- Light
- Natural light transforms this work — morning and evening light read differently
- Daylight
- Pale ivory and steel gray take on the color of whatever light reaches them, cooler at noon and faintly rosy at dusk. That drift suits a snowstorm; only direct glare washes the white field out completely.
Lives best in
Living room 5/5
Abstract Snow Storm Scene earns its 5 here because a living room is the one domestic space that can hold a five-foot storm without apology, letting the oxblood and deep madder smolder against the lilac gray and reward the long, repeated looking that this painting demands.
Bedroom 4/5
The painting's theme of overwhelm quieting into surrender is genuinely right for a bedroom, but the dark gloss passages and the deep madder create a simmer that morning light will intensify, so the room must be large enough that the canvas never looms over the bed.
Details
- Size
- 5 × 5 ft (W × H)
- Medium
- Acrylic on canvas
- Year
- 2023
- Collection
- Ephemeral Atmosphere
- Palette
- Charcoal Gray · Pale Gray · Lilac Gray · Dark Gloss · Deep Green · Deep Madder · Oxblood
- Weight
- About 45 lb
- Ready
- In the studio; delivery 6–10 weeks
Its ArtGram
ArtGram.Fork
- Texture2
- Form3
- Colour range3
- Palette3.8
- Contrast3.8
- Abstraction Quotient-1
