Light shines through a glass front door, causing yellow smoke to appear glowing. The smoke contrasts with the red painted immersive mural.
 
 

HURRICANE is an energetic immersive mural capturing the inner experience of breakthrough and freedom from inner turmoil.

When streams of living water meet the divine spark within us.

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Momentum and pressure builds, like fast flowing floodwater into a dam. Eventually the walls around the heart - of protection, fear, limitation and control - burst…

and the door opens to a new life.

 
 
Light shines through a glass front door, highlighting yellow powder from a smoke bomb on the ground. The walls of the art installation are painted red with gold and pink brushmarks.
 
 
An abstract immersive mural features watter like brushmarks in gold, red and purple against a blue pastel backdrop.
 
 

“I had the title for this mural installation before I started. I felt drawn to create a piece that was a powerful wave of transitional movement and explosion. Initially I thought I’d paint circular brushstrokes to represent the hurricane, but my body instinctively wanted a more wave-like gesture. Eventually these waves of colour came to represent sound vibration, or perhaps frequency, to me.

 
 
 
Close up of mural corner detail showing rainbow colors - blue, purple, green, yellow and red - the paint moves from the walls up onto the ceiling.
Close up detail of the floor in an immersive mural. Pink paint splatters over the white wooden floor, while light pours through the door and makes striking patterns on the gloss finish.
Looking down a painted hallway, the colors transition from red to purple to blue. At the end of the hallway a gold spray painted wave contrasts against the blue background of the installation.
 

Water, the emotional realm, cleansing, grace, Life

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Fire, purification, justice, creative power, Love

 
A blue and purple pastel mural, with paint covering the walls and up onto the ceiling. The paint appears like water merging into the sky.
 
 

“Depending on which side you enter from, the emotional feeling and experience of the artwork is very different. When entered from the blue side, it’s like being carried by a rip or current. There’s contrast between the more restricted, narrow part of the hallway, compared with the open area at the end: a release.

When entered from the pink/red side there’s almost a sense of reeling or being propelled back from an explosion, as the colour is so bright and intense.

One experience is of transition, excitement and momentum. The other, cannon-like, powerful and unlocking.

 
 
A red chandelier lights up a painted mural, the brushstrokes and light creates an atmosphere of fire.
 
Close up of a ceiling from an immersive mural. The ceiling is painted in red, purple and blue with the colors merging together. A yellow explosion of color radiates from the centre of the image.
 
 
 
Close up of the floor and walls of a pastel mural. The paint appears like sound waves, with lots of movement.
Mural detail showing bright orange painted walls with gold and pink spray painted shapes on top.
 
 
Close up detail from a red painted section of a mural, painterly brushmarks and gold spray paint can be seen against the background color.
The painted floor of an immersive mural, featuring pink splatters over a white wooden floor. Yellow powder from a smoke cannon has been swept into a pile.
A nude painted female figure is painted on a bedroom wall, next to her a door opens to reveal a bright purple and pink painted hallway.
 
 
 
 
 

“At night with the light on, HURRICANE resembles a furnace. The installation appears to glow against the night sky. This was an unexpected connection to my mural project ‘The End of Shame’, where a fireplace melts the frozen atmosphere of shame. Now, here, the fire can be entered. While I’ve been aware of the effect of colours bouncing off one another before, the effect has been amplified because it’s a small space, the hues are vibrant and there isn’t much direct natural light. The application of so much pink/red caused the colours to almost bounce or pulse off the walls… a heartbeat?

 
 
A vibrant rainbow mural is painted on the brick exterior of a residential house. Through the front door a glowing red light appears like a furnace.
 
 
 
 
 
 

“I can remember sitting behind the glass front door when I was a kid, waiting for my dad to come back home (he never did). There was a sense of being frozen in time, waiting, unable to move past the sadness… with no catalyst to transition from grief into the next stage of life. So I wanted this mural to feel like there was both a sense of closure, but also that after a painful chapter ends there’s still the possibility of a desirable new beginning.

And that pain can be transformed.

 
 
 
Clouds of yellow smoke billow through an artistically painted immersive mural. A chandelier lights up the hallway like a furnace.
 
 
 
Clouds of yellow smoke billow through an artistically painted immersive mural.
 
Yellow smoke from a cannon pours out of an artistically painted hallway, the smoke contrasts with the bright red walls.