Wild Swim Paintings: Thunder Hush

Now that the Wild Swim collection is out in the world, I’m sharing the individual paintings from it in a blog series, with a little bit of commentary about each one. If you’ve had your eye on one, this is a chance to get to know it better!

This week: Thunder Hush

Thunder Hush with daffodils on a shelf in the kitchen

Apart from really loving the title for this one, which came to me while I was thinking about the sound the waves make when they crash on the shore, this is a more unusual painting in that it suggests a distant horizon.

Usually the paintings are more abstract than landscape, because they’re about being here and now in the immediate surroundings and what that feels like.

Occasionally a horizon line appears though, and I like that this one combines both in an abstract, suggestive way.