Hurricane

After the great storm of 1987, which tore through southern England and felled so many trees, Rowena made a series of paintings shaped by that moment. Much of the imagery is seen from indoors, looking out through windows from the shelter of a house into a world suddenly unmoored - trees twisting, air in motion, the familiar made unstable. The works hold a quiet tension between safety and violence, stillness and movement, capturing the uneasy distance between the observer and a landscape in upheaval.