Outside my window...

    Hurricane Irene thrashes and wails, flailing her wings of wind and rain. Her fury and raw power, the darker side of Nature, remind me of how artists have been inspired over the centuries to capture something so fierce and render it as something very beautiful.




Philip Jacques de Loutherbourg
Rocky Coastal Landscape in a Storm
1771



Joseph Mallord William Turner
Dutch Fishing Boats in a Storm  1801
Oil on canvas, 163 x 221 cm
National Gallery, London

 Abraham Willaerts
Stormy Sea   1626
Oil on panel, 85 x 114 cm
The Hermitage, St. Petersburg

 Jan Brueghel the Elder
Christ in the Storm on the Sea of Galilee c. 1596
Oil on copper, 27 x 35 cm
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid