Artist’s Description

I love the colours of a summer storm and the feeling of relief in the air.

It was made using highly pigmented oil paint on stretched canvas. The painting continues around the sides of the canvas and it comes with appropriate hanging fixings ready to hang straight onto your wall. A coat of varnish has been applied to protect the painted surface from dust and UV light. The work is signed on the front. A catalogued certificate of authenticity is included. For safe delivery, it will be carefully packaged and sent fully insured via a tracked courier.

Collector’s Insight

Rodger works here with the kind of chromatic confidence that makes semi-abstract landscape painting genuinely difficult to do well. The colour relationships in Summer Storm are bold almost to the point of audacity — electric teal and luminous acid green in the land below, deep navy and purple bruising across the upper sky, a band of pale violet light where storm and field meet at the horizon — and yet the painting holds together with complete authority. The pigmentation is visibly rich throughout, the surface alive with varied mark-making: impastoed clouds that carry genuine weight and turbulence, scrubbed and dragged passages in the foreground that suggest wet grass and wind, scratched-back lines that let the underlayers breathe through.

What Rodger captures is not just weather but atmosphere in the older sense — the quality of air and light at a particular charged moment. That narrow strip of yellow-green at the horizon, glowing against the storm, carries the “feeling of relief” the artist describes with remarkable precision. It is the kind of painting that changes slightly with the light in the room, and rewards living with over time.

Collectors drawn to expressive abstract landscape, high-keyed colour, and paintings with genuine emotional atmosphere will find Summer Storm an energising and enduring acquisition. Its square format and wrap-around canvas make it immediately ready to hang in any space that can take a strong, vivid focal point.

Materials & Presentation

• Original oil painting on stretched canvas
• Highly pigmented oil paint
• Artwork size: 16 × 16 inches (approximately 41 × 41 cm)
• Painting continues around the canvas sides
• Finished with protective varnish (dust and UV resistant)
• Signed on the front
• Hanging fixings included — ready to hang
• Certificate of authenticity included
• Carefully packaged and sent fully insured via tracked courier