Europe

Creative rationale

This location sits over the Atlantic Ocean west of the Canary Islands, where warm maritime air creates a humid, stable atmosphere. The high humidity of 85% drives the biomorphic forms to bleed and dissolve into one another like watercolor on wet paper, while the significant temperature anomaly of 6.7°C above normal creates an emotional tension that manifests as tortured, pressing shapes straining against the picture plane. The moderate wind from the northeast adds gestural energy through aggressive mark-making that cuts through the underlying washes, and the elevated pressure of 1015.0 hPa allows forms to float in open painterly space rather than compress claustrophobically.