Edmund Carr · No. 176
The Storm at Sea
The Storm at Sea is the Romantic sublime at full force. Edmund Carr flings a small ship into the heart of a swirling tempest — towering waves, racing cloud, spray and rain churned into a single vortex of weather, with a shaft of pale light breaking through the chaos above. Carr works in the great tradition of the marine sublime that Turner perfected, where nature's overwhelming power dwarfs the human and form dissolves into pure energy and motion. The brushwork is loose and furious, sea and sky merging into one turning mass, the ship a fragile dark note almost swallowed by the storm. The palette is storm-grey and green shot through with sudden, glowing light. There is terror here, and exhilaration: the awe the Romantics sought before the forces that exceed us. Dramatic, dynamic and genuinely sublime, it makes the viewer feel the wind and the spray. It is a hymn to the power of nature and the smallness of man, painted as a single breathtaking whirl of light and water.
An original oil painting on canvas by Edmund Carr, painted to order — never a reproduction. Atmospheric Romanticism — luminous skies, storms and seas where light dissolves form, in the sublime tradition of Turner.
Available sizes
- 50 × 60 cm
- 60 × 80 cm
- 80 × 100 cm
- 100 × 130 cm
- 120 × 160 cm
Or a custom size on request. Each canvas is painted to order.
- Artist
- Edmund Carr
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Finish
- Unframed, ready to hang or frame
- Made
- To order, by hand
