Lightning – Contemporary Figurative Painting with Gold Leaf Highlights (A3)

This artwork captures a figure facing the storm head-on, embodying courage and defiance. A flash of gold leaf lightning cuts across the body, symbolising raw energy and resilience. With vivid contrasts, this abstract figurative painting channels the drama of nature itself.

• Title: Lightning
• Medium: Acrylic & gold leaf on 250 gsm paper
• Size: A3 (29.7 x 42 cm)
• Collection: Storm
• Year: 2022

The Storm Collection (2022) is a series of 14 original acrylic paintings that merge abstract figurative art, life drawing, and collage-inspired techniques. Created during a period of turbulence, these works channel the forces of nature — lightning, floods, waves, and celestial bodies — into powerful female forms.

Each painting features acrylic paint and luminous gold leaf details, reflecting themes of resilience, renewal, and myth. Halos, crescents, ripples, and geometric motifs reimagine classical iconography with a contemporary edge, blending spirituality with expressive abstraction.

This collection is an ode to strength and communion — between women, nature, and the storms that shape us. It is at once deeply personal and universally symbolic, making it a striking body of work in contemporary figurative painting.