Quayola’s Storms offers a digital-age response to the tradition of landscape painting. Using ultra-high-definition footage of stormy seas off the coast of Cornwall, the artist creates moving images that behave less like videos and more like evolving, algorithmic paintings.

These works translate the rhythm of waves, the force of wind, and the shifting of light into a visual language shaped by data. They don’t merely depict nature but are rather built from it. Quayola treats movement not as animation but as intrinsic motion: a dynamic, internal energy that generates form over time.

In collaboration with the machine, the artist proposes a new kind of painterly process. The result is a strange and captivating hybrid: landscapes that are both familiar and alien, both natural and digital.

Storms is not just a visual meditation; it is a study of how we perceive, represent, and reconstruct the natural world in an age defined by code. It invites us to contemplate a nature that looks back at us—pixelated, abstracted, and alive.