Blue Before the Storm | 36" x 48" 20x16 The artist’s name

The artist’s name

as though the viewer is looking into a garden alive with sound and movement

with visible brushwork adding dimension

creating a surface of layered movement

Blue Before the Storm | 36" x 48" 20x16 The artist’s nameAbout the Artwork Blue Before the Storm is a 36" 48" oil painting on canvas by Richard Cole (b. 1968), presenting a Prairie landscape in which a field of blue and pale violet blossoms extends beneath a layered sky of pale blue, white cumulus cloud, and a dark teal blue storm band above the horizon. The sky is more open than in Cole's storm series canola works. Pale blue covers the upper register, with thin diagonal streaks of cloud visible near the