Weathering the Storm is a series of mixed-media paintings that explore the emotional weather of place—how landscapes hold memory, how homes can feel both sheltering and exposed, and how quiet distances form between what once felt close. Each piece carries the tension of approaching darkness and fragile light, where the horizon shifts and the air seems heavy with what cannot be said.
Painted on handmade, deckled-edged paper, these works embrace the physicality of process: acrylic layers are built up, scraped back, and reworked, allowing traces of earlier marks to remain visible. Collaged textured cardboard and heavy papers are embedded into the surface, creating a tactile terrain of ridges, grids, and erosion-like patterns—structures that suggest architecture, weather systems, and time itself.
Together, the collection reflects endurance rather than resolution: the storm does not simply pass, it changes the ground it moves across. In these paintings, small houses persist within vast, shifting skies—symbols of presence, vulnerability, and the quiet act of staying.
(The frames are mock ups showing how I would frame them)
Weather Between us 59 x 42 cm
Leave it Unsaid 59 x 42 cm
Opposite Houses 80 x 55.5cm
Borderland 75 x 52cm
Sandra van Beurden Art 