Morgan Allender

Catastrophic events and freak climactic devastations.  Morgan Allender’s paintings evoke the ominous quality of Nature, the epic scale of Nature; pressures building deep underground as the earth moves and its surfaces shift. 
Her most recent body of work draws upon the ancient concept of Nature as embodied by divine beings that must be respected if storms and disasters are to be avoided: animalistic forces controlling the wind, the sea, and the earth beneath our feet.  In these paintings something has upset the balance. The gods are angry, or melancholy, or simply just watching and biding their time...