The Storm Series
Original Oil Paintings Exploring Light Within Turbulence
This painting defines the Storm Collection — an exploration of resilience, rupture, and the strength required to stand beneath something immense.
These original oil storm paintings explore the tension between destruction and light — vast Midwestern skies, supercell formations, lightning, and moments of atmospheric stillness before and after impact. Each piece is painted in oil on canvas and captures the movement, scale, and emotional weight of dramatic weather.
Inspired by Ohio landscapes and the architecture of storm systems, this collection reflects resilience, power, and the quiet strength that follows upheaval.
Janine Crum’s contemporary storm paintings blend realism and abstraction, layering deep ultramarines, luminous teals, and fire-lit cloud structures to create immersive sky landscapes. These original oil paintings are available as one-of-a-kind works and selected fine art prints.
Collectors drawn to dramatic skies, weather-inspired art, and modern landscape painting will find pieces here that command presence while maintaining emotional depth.
Oil on canvas | 36 x 48 inches
In Strength For Us All, a monumental storm rises above an open Midwestern landscape, its luminous cloud mass emerging from shadow and expanding into light. The composition balances density and release — darkened sky pressing inward while illumination builds at the horizon.
Painted at a commanding 36 x 48 inches, this large-scale oil painting explores collective endurance — the kind of strength that holds steady beneath pressure. Layers of ultramarine, charcoal, and softened white create depth and atmosphere, while the grounded horizon anchors the viewer in stillness.
Part of the Storm Collection, this work reflects Janine Crum’s ongoing study of resilience, scale, and the emotional architecture of weather across vast landscapes.
Special thanks to storm chaser, Justin Snead, for allowing me to use his photograph as inspiration for this painting.
Still, We Look Up
Oil on canvas, 24 x 36 inches
In this vertical storm study, dense cloud mass rises through shadow and ember-lit sky, fractured by shafts of light that widen as they ascend. The composition pulls the eye upward, echoing the human instinct to look toward light even when surrounded by weight.
Balancing atmospheric abstraction with structural realism, this painting explores resilience through scale — the tension between what towers above us and the quiet strength required to stand beneath it.
Layered ultramarines, deep charcoal, and incandescent orange create a cathedral-like architecture of weather, where turbulence becomes illumination.
This original oil painting is part of the Storm Collection — a body of work exploring rupture, renewal, and the emotional landscape of sky.
Special thanks to storm chaser and friend, Adam Jackson, for allowing me to use his photograph for inspiration for this painting.
Oil on canvas | 18 x 24 inches
In Layers of a Storm, cloud forms gather in sweeping strata of teal, charcoal, and diffused light. Rather than capturing a single dramatic strike, this painting explores the architecture of atmosphere — the weight, depth, and movement contained within layered sky.
Soft transitions and overlapping forms create a sense of immersion, as if standing beneath a sky in motion. Luminous whites emerge from shadowed mass, suggesting resilience within density and calm within turbulence.
Part of the Storm Collection, this original oil painting reflects Janine Crum’s exploration of depth, scale, and the emotional complexity carried within weather systems.
On the Horizon
Oil on canvas | 30 x 40 inches
In On the Horizon, opposing forces converge across an open Midwestern horizon. A supercell structure anchors the sky, its dark mass pierced by branching lightning while a tornado descends into fire-lit fields below.
The composition balances symmetry and rupture — warm and cool tones colliding across the canvas, light fracturing through density. This original oil painting captures the precise moment tension peaks, when sky splits and atmosphere becomes electric.
Part of the Storm Collection, this work explores threshold — the edge between destruction and illumination, fear and awe, fracture and transformation.
Atmospheric Studies
Overcoming
Oil on canvas | 24 x 36 inches
In Overcoming, dense storm mass gives way to rising illumination. Vertical movement dominates the composition, with layered charcoal and ultramarine clouds fractured by fire-lit light that pushes upward through weight and shadow.
Balancing atmospheric abstraction with structural realism, this painting explores the moment tension shifts — when pressure becomes lift, and darkness becomes architecture for light.
Part of the Storm Collection, Overcoming reflects Janine Crum’s ongoing exploration of resilience, scale, and the emotional landscape of weather.
Special thanks to storm chaser and friend, Adam Jackson, for allowing me to use his photograph for inspiration for this painting.
Oil on canvas | 12 x 16 inches
In Striking Jade, a single lightning bolt fractures a dense teal sky, illuminating layers of atmospheric depth and shadow. The composition is restrained yet electric — a study in tension, stillness, and sudden release.
Rich ultramarine and jade tones create a saturated field of color, while the vertical strike introduces sharp movement against the surrounding calm. This original oil painting captures the quiet charge before impact — the precise moment sky becomes kinetic.
Part of the Storm Collection, Striking Jade explores contrast: minimal gesture against expansive atmosphere, energy contained within stillness.
Oil on canvas | 18 × 24 inches
In Movement, cloud and light sweep across the canvas in layered, atmospheric currents. A luminous break in the sky pushes through dense shadow, creating a sense of upward motion and shifting air.
Rather than capturing a single strike or rupture, this original oil painting explores momentum — the quiet force of weather as it gathers, turns, and releases. Soft gradients of teal, charcoal, and diffused white create depth without sharp edges, allowing the viewer to feel the sky rather than simply observe it.
Part of the Storm Collection, Movement reflects Janine Crum’s exploration of scale, transition, and the emotional energy carried within atmosphere.
Oil on canvas | 24 x 36 inches
In Washed Away, a towering supercell sweeps across an open Midwestern landscape, its green-lit mass and shadowed column dominating the horizon. Light fractures at the edge of the storm, illuminating the tension between stillness and force.
This original oil painting captures the architecture of severe weather — the moment when sky and land blur beneath movement too large to resist. Layered ultramarines, deep charcoal, and atmospheric green create depth and scale, while the open foreground grounds the composition in quiet vulnerability.
Part of the Storm Collection, Washed Away explores rupture, surrender, and the transformative power of weather across vast landscape.
Special thanks to storm chaser and friend, Adam Jackson, for allowing me to use his photograph for inspiration for this painting.
Oil on canvas | 18 x 24 inches
In Hot Air, dense cloud mass ignites in layers of ember-orange and softened ash, rising from shadow into heat. The composition feels suspended between combustion and diffusion — warmth gathering against cool undertones of deep charcoal and muted teal.
Rather than depicting a literal strike, this original oil painting explores pressure — the invisible build of atmosphere before release. Swirling forms and softened edges create movement within stillness, suggesting both turbulence and transformation.
Part of the Storm Collection, Hot Air reflects Janine Crum’s exploration of emotional weather — how heat, tension, and light coexist within shifting sky.